scholarly journals Self-definition of Japanese-American Women

1999 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Masako KUROKI
Keyword(s):  
Japanese American ◽  
American Women ◽  
Definition Of

Japanese American Women: A Sense of Place

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosanna Yamagiwa ◽  
Leita Hagemann Luchetti
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
American Women

Foundations for a New World Order: Uniting Protestant Worship during the World War II Japanese American Incarceration

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-316
Author(s):  
Anne M. Blankenship
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
New World Order ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Church

During the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, visions of a peaceful new world order led mainline Protestants to manipulate the worship practices of incarcerated Japanese Americans ( Nikkei) to strengthen unity of the church and nation. Ecumenical leaders saw possibilities within the chaos of incarceration and war to improve themselves, their church, and the world through these experiments based on ideals of Protestant ecumenism and desires for racial equality and integration. This essay explores why agendas that restricted the autonomy of racial minorities were doomed to fail and how Protestants can learn from this experience to expand their definition of unity to include pluralist representations of Christianity and America as imagined by different sects and ethnic groups.

Comparison of Suicide Rates Among Asian Americans in 2000 and 2010

2016 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuke Kuroki
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Ethnic Variation ◽  
Filipino American ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
American Women ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Suicide Behaviors

This brief report used the mortality data to separately examine suicide rates of the six largest Asian American groups: Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. In 2000, Japanese American men (13.8 per 100,000) showed significantly higher suicide rate than Chinese, Indian, and Vietnamese American men (7.3, 4.0, and 6.1 per 100,000), whereas Chinese, Korean, and Japanese women (3.7, 3.9, and 4.3 per 100,000) showed higher suicide rates than Indian women (1.2 per 100,000). In 2010, Korean and Japanese American men (19.9 and 15.7 per 100,000) showed higher suicide rates than men of other Asian groups. Korean and Japanese American women (8.1 and 5.0 per 100,000) showed higher suicide rates than Indian and Filipino American women (1.5 and 1.8 per 100,000). The findings challenge the notion that Asian Americans are at low risk for suicide and underscore the importance of examining ethnic variation in suicide behaviors among Asian Americans.

Existential Crisis of the Japanese American Woman: A Study of Post War Japanese American Fiction

Ensemble ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
Nitusmita Bhattacharyya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Woman ◽  
The United States ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Native Community ◽  
American Women ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War

The Japanese American women, during the Second World War, suffered from subjugation at different levels of their existence. They had been subjected to marginalization based on their sexual identity within their native community. They were further made to experience discrimination on the basis of their racial status while living as a member of the Japanese diaspora in the United States during the War. The objectification and marginalization of the women had led them to the realization of their existence as a non -entity within and outside their community. However, the internment of Japanese Americans followed by the declaration of Executive Order 9066 by President Roosevelt and the consequent experience of living behind the barbed wire fences left them to struggle with questions raised on their claim to existence and their identity within a space where race and gender contested each other. In my research paper, I have made a humble attempt at studying the existential crisis of the Japanese American women in America during the War.

Politics in Other Ways

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-287
Author(s):  
Maki Smith
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Grassroots Politics ◽  
Racial Liberalism ◽  
Racial Harmony ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

This article explores the ways that Seattle’s Asian American—and in particular Japanese American—community negotiated the shifting terrain of racial politics in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While Seattle’s city leaders—and indeed many in the civil rights establishment—heralded the city for its racial liberalism, a young cadre of activists organized across racial and ethnic boundaries and challenged established leadership to articulate a robust, anti-racist, working-class multiracial politics. Significantly, the rise of Black and Asian anti-racist solidarities exploded the city’s narrative of exceptional racial harmony in an age of social crisis. Activists adopted a capacious definition of community that could acknowledge specific identities while simultaneously coalescing around a shared sense of injury. They also practiced a form of grassroots politics that was flexible and improvisational, that was enacted both within and outside established organizations and channels, and that ultimately blurred the distinction between moderation and radicalism.

scholarly journals Review: Partner Support and Physical Activity among Mexican American Women

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neomie C. Congello ◽  
Deborah Koniak-Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Partner Support ◽  
Noncommunicable Disease ◽  
Cochrane Library ◽  
Mexican American Women ◽  
American Women ◽  
Definition Of

Objective: Global recommendations on physical activity for noncommunicable disease prevention can be promoted using partner support strategies among women of Mexican descent and other ethnicities.Design/Methods: This systematic review utilized a multifaceted ecological approach by focusing comprehensively on communi­ty, individual, and social factors influencing physical activity. PubMed, SAGE Publica­tions, EBSCO, ResearchGate, the Cochrane Library and Google Scholar search engines were used to find research on physical activity, with inclusion criteria of Mexi­can American women, aged ≥ 18 years, comprising at least 50% of study population sizes.Main Outcome Measures: An initial search of 232 articles with subsequent searches from reference lists led to selection of a mixture of qualitative (3), mixed methods (3), and intervention (1) studies report­ing partner support for physical activity as perceived by women.Results: Primarily, studies have conceptual­ized physical activity as leisure time activi­ties. Few studies have considered multiple ecological factors in examining influences of physical activity among women. Important­ly, how women perceive support for physi­cal activity received from partners has been shown to influence their levels of activity.Conclusions: Conceptualization of physi­cal activity restricted only to leisure time eliminates other domains that a broader definition of the term encompasses. Future studies are needed to investigate partner support influences on the overall physical activity of Mexican American women within a larger ecological context. Careful attention to partner support for physical activity en­gagement can help ameliorate and prevent chronic diseases both nationally and around the world. Ethn Dis. 2018;28(4):555-560;doi:10.18865/ed.28.4.555.

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