TETSUDEN KASHIMA. Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II. (The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies.) Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 316. $35.00

2005 ◽  
Vol 110 (5) ◽  
pp. 1554-1555
Author(s):  
N. C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
World War ◽  
University Of Washington ◽  
Seattle University

Against the Yellowwashing of Israel: The BDS Movement and Liberatory Solidarities across Settler States

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candace Fujikane
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Pacific Islanders ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
World War ◽  
Alternative Evaluation ◽  
Starting Point

Following the focus on Palestine in the previous chapter, Chapter 9 takes as a critical starting point the complicit relationship Asian American politicians such as Senator Daniel Inouye shared with Israel. Such complicit “yellowwashing,” which involves a strategic remembrance of World War II–era Japanese American incarceration, presages Fujikane’s alternative evaluation of “liberatory solidarities” between Pacific Islanders and Palestinians.

Japanese Americans in Academia and Political Discourse in Japan

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Okiyoshi Takeda
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The U.S

I am a political scientist specializing in Asian American politics. Although I earned my PhD in the United States, my initial interest was in the U.S. Congress and not in Japanese American studies or Asian American studies. What shifted my interest toward Asian American studies was that I had witnessed firsthand a campus sit-in at the Princeton University president’s office, where students were fighting for the establishment of an Asian American studies program. Witnessing such an incident, I realized that Asian Americans were an understudied topic in the field of political science. There is also a tendency for scholars from Japan to focus exclusively on Japanese Americans and to disregard other Asian American ethnic groups. Since I did not start out my study on Asian Americans in a graduate school in Japan with an interest in Japanese Americans, I have been able to avoid taking that kind of path....

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