Superheroine Latinidad: The Diasporic Identities of America Chavez & La Borinqueña

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Castillo Planas
Keyword(s):  
Diasporic Identities

A True Sino-Japanese Amity? Collaborationism and the Yokohama Chinese (1937–1945)

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-609
Author(s):  
Eric Han
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Government ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Chinese Identity ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Police Records ◽  
Local Integration ◽  
Diasporic Identities

Taking the Yokohama Chinese community as an exemplary case, this article delves into linkages between Chinese diasporic identities and collaborationism during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). Using published memoirs, Japanese government and police records, and local newspapers, it examines the wartime experiences of a community struggling to maintain both its Chinese identity and its position in local society. Japanese authorities did not categorically assimilate, intern, or deport this population. Instead, they enforced displays of support for collaborationist regimes in occupied China in order to manufacture what they termed “Sino-Japanese amity.” Public expressions by the Yokohama Chinese contributed to this narrative, but these Chinese were not merely puppets. They actively negotiated the meanings and practices of collaborationism to fulfill local needs. By examining their engagement with Chinese and Japanese national imperatives, this article reflects on the nature of Sino-Japanese friendship, hidden resistance, and local integration.

“An Ireland over There”?

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Sara S. Goek
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
World War ◽  
Irish Identity ◽  
Diasporic Identities ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the role of dance halls in British and American cities among the Irish communities after World War II. It incorporates historical and cultural analysis of Irish traditional music in dance halls, stressing the symbiotic relationship between place and diasporic identities. It offers a window on the way Irish negotiated, contested, interpreted, and performed their Irish identity while living abroad.

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