The Japanese American Family: A Perspective for Future Investigations

1968 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Modell
Keyword(s):  
Japanese American ◽  
American Family

Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family.

1995 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 1774
Author(s):  
Stephen S. Fugita ◽  
Lauren Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Japanese American ◽  
American Family ◽  
Three Generations

scholarly journals The Managed Casualty: The Japanese-American Family in World War II.

1957 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 606
Author(s):  
Iwao Ishino ◽  
Leonard Broom ◽  
John I. Kitsuse
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
American Family ◽  
World War

Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 485
Author(s):  
John J. Culley ◽  
Yoshiko Uchida
Keyword(s):  
Japanese American ◽  
American Family

Desert Exile. The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family.

1983 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 386
Author(s):  
Takie Sugiyama Lebra ◽  
Yoshiko Uchida
Keyword(s):  
Japanese American ◽  
American Family

scholarly journals Exilic representation and the (dis)embodied self: memory and photography in Yoshiko Uchida’s , autobiography Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 148-171
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Jarmołowicz-Dziekońska
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
American Family ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
The Past ◽  
Individual Memory ◽  
American Author ◽  
Embodied Self ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Yoshiko Uchida

Photography and memory seem to be inextricably bound up with each other, as photographs can invoke memories which help to excavate past moments with vivid details. Yoshiko Uchida in her autobiography, Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family (1982), delves into her past experiences through the lens of counter-memory, i.e. the memory of the minor and the subjugated. The Japanese-American author strives to recover the past by means of photographic images which—blended into written reminiscences— uncover yet another plane of articulation. Individual memory has enabled the author to chisel her own identity with textual and photographic means of self-expression. Constructing her autobiographical confession, Uchida also draws upon the collective memory of the war internment of the Japanese and Japanese Americans, which inevitably shaped her present self. A set of photographs which accompanies her account testifies that the ocular dimension can be as powerful as the textual one. Each photograph contains a stratum of data which deprives the text of its autonomy and grants it an equal status of signification.

scholarly journals Association of Filial Responsibility, Ethnicity, and Acculturation Among Japanese American Family Caregivers of Older Adults

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina E. Miyawaki
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
American Family ◽  
Filial Responsibility ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Acculturation Level

Challenges of filial caregiving practices by 1st-generation immigrants due to differences in caregiving values between their home and host countries are well documented. This study explored the filial responsibility of later generation Japanese American caregivers of older adults. Acculturation and filial responsibility were measured using the Suinn-Lew Asian Self Identity Acculturation scale and Filial Values Index, respectively. A qualitative interview guide was developed using Gordon’s assimilation theory, and 21 caregivers ( M age = 68 years, 86% female, seven in each generation) were interviewed. Despite the 3rd-generation caregivers’ high acculturation level, their filial responsibility scores remained high. Qualitative interviews also revealed later generation caregivers’ strong filial responsibility and continued caregiving involvement. Unexpectedly, caregivers’ own future expectancy of care included placement in mainstream residential facilities rather than ethnic-specific settings. Findings point to the need to develop caregiver services that consider later generation caregivers’ culture and level of assimilation.

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