What makes hegemonic masculinity so hegemonic? Japanese American men and masculine aspirations
In: Identities: global studies in culture and power, Band 29, Heft 5, S. 671-690
ISSN: 1547-3384
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In: Identities: global studies in culture and power, Band 29, Heft 5, S. 671-690
ISSN: 1547-3384
In: Sociological inquiry: the quarterly journal of the International Sociology Honor Society, Band 85, Heft 4, S. 600-627
ISSN: 1475-682X
In recent years, fourth‐generation Japanese American youth have been attempting to recover their ethnic heritage and reconnect with their ancestral homeland. This ethnic revival is a response to their continued racialization as "Japanese," which has caused them to become concerned about their overassimilation to American society in an era of multiculturalism where cultural heritage and homeland have come to be positively valued. As a result, they are studying Japanese, majoring in Asian studies, living in Japan as college exchange students, and participating in Japanesetaikodrum ensembles in local ethnic communities. Although this return to ethnic roots is a more serious commitment than the symbolic ethnicity observed among white ethnics in the past, it indicates that ethnicity remains involuntary for racial minorities, even after four generations. The case of later‐generation Japanese Americans demonstrates that cultural assimilation does not preclude the continuation and active production of ethnic difference.
In: Regions & cohesion: Regiones y cohesión = Régions et cohésion : the journal of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 83-104
ISSN: 2152-9078
Some scholars have recently suggested that the concept of diaspora should be regarded as a type of identity or consciousness instead of as a transnational ethnic community. While it is undeniable that some dispersed ethnic populations identify as diasporic peoples, older "economic diasporas" sometimes have lost their transnational social cohesion and do not have a diasporic consciousness. I illustrate this by examining the experiences of Japanese Americans, an important part of the "Japanese diaspora" of Japanese descendants (Nikkei) sca ered throughout the Americas. Because they have become assimilated in the United States over the generations, they no longer maintain any notable diasporic identi fication with the ethnic homeland or to other Japanese descent ethnic communities in the Americas. Even when they encounter Nikkei from other countries, national cultural diff erences make it difficult for them to develop a diasporic identity as Japanese descendants with a common cultural heritage or historical experiences.
In: Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration, S. 313-338
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 616-636
ISSN: 1469-8129
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 616-637
ISSN: 1354-5078
In: Nationalism & ethnic politics, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 544-547
ISSN: 1557-2986
In: Diaspora: a journal of transnational studies, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 53-91
ISSN: 1911-1568
In: Nationalism & ethnic politics, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 505-529
ISSN: 1557-2986
In: Asian Anthropologies 6
Like other industrial nations, Japan is experiencing its own forms of, and problems with, internationalization and multiculturalism. This volume focuses on several aspects of this process and examines the immigrant minorities as well as their Japanese recipient communities. Multiculturalism is considered broadly, and includes topics often neglected in other works, such as: religious pluralism, domestic and international tourism, political regionalism and decentralization, sports, business styles in the post-Bubble era, and the education of immigrant minorities