Japanese American Millennials

Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering anthology, Japanese American Millennials, captures theexperiences, 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 toaddress absences in the current literature and suggests how we might alternatively study Japanese Americans as a whole.

In timp ce majoritatea burselor pentru japonezi americani privesc studii de caz istorice sau asimilarea generatiei 1,5, aceasta antologie pioniera, Japanese American Millennials, surprinde experientele, perspectivele si aspiratiile asiatice americane nascute intre 1980 si 2000. Editorii si colaboratorii prezinta perspective multiple asupra cine Japonezii americani sunt, modul in care gandesc despre notiunile de comunitate si cultura si modul in care se angajeaza si negociaza identitati sociale multiple. in ligile de baschet pentru tineret sau in taberele de tineret crestine, precum si modul in care se lupta pentru a fi de rasa mixta, biculturala sau ciudata.