Japanese American Millennials: Rethinking Generation, Community, and Diversity (Asian American History & Cultu)

"Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering anthology, Japanese American Millennials, captures the experiences, perspectives, and aspirations of Asian Americans born between 1980 and 2000. The editors and contributors present multiple perspectives on who Japanese Americans are, how they think about notions of community and culture, and how they engage and negotiate multiple social identities. The essays by scholars both in the United States and Japan draw upon the Japanese American millennial experience to examine how they find self-expression in Youth Basketball Leagues or Christian youth camps as well as how they grapple with being mixed-race, bicultural, or queer. Featuring compelling interviews and observations, Japanese American Millennials dislodges the dominant generational framework to address absences in the current literature and suggests how we might alternatively study Japanese Americans as a whole." -- Provided by publisher Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction / Michael Omi, Dana Y. Nakano, and Jeffrey T. Yamashita Part I. Sustaining Community 1. "We've Got Team Spirit!": Ethnic Community Building and Japanese American Youth Basketball Leagues / Christina B. Chin 2. Millennial Understandings of Nikkei Seishin in San Jose Japantown / Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani 3. To Be Yonsei in Southern California: Persistent Community as Postsuburban Minority Culture of Mobility / Dana Y. Nakano Part II. Spiritualities 4. Redefining "Camp" in Protestant Japanese America / Dean Ryuta Adachi 5. Religious Nones? Increasing Unaffiliated and Christian Religiosity among Japanese American Millennials / Brett J. Esaki 6. "I Am Trailblazing": Young Adult Japanese American Shin Buddhists Negotiating Complex Identities / Chenxing Han Part III. Redefining Ethnicity 7. Of Transgression: Zainichi Korean Immigrants' Search for Home(s) and Belonging / Kyung Hee Ha 8. Millennial Shin-Issei Identity Politics in Los Angeles / Aki Yamada Part IV. Intersecting Identities 9. Mixed-Race Japanese American Millennials: Millennials or Japanese Americans? / Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain 10. The New Second Generation: Biculturalism and Transnational Identities among Japanese American Shin-Nisei / Takeyuki Tsuda 11. Techie, Gender Queer, and Lesbian: Interview with Shin-Nisei Mioi Hanaoka / Amy Sueyoshi Part V. Crossing and Bridging Boundaries 12. Japanese American Millennials in Contemporary Japan / Jane H. Yamashiro 13. Questioning the "World": Millennial Generation Okinawan American Identity Matters / Wesley Iwao Ueunten 14. Uniting Hapas: The Global Communities of Mixed-Race Nikkei on YouTube / Lori Kido Lopez Contributors Index