In The Great Unknown, award-winning historian and journalist Greg Robinson offers a fascinating and compulsively readable collection of biographical portraits of extraordinary but unheralded figures in Japanese American history: men and women who made remarkable contributions in the arts, literature, law, sports, and other fields. Recovering and celebrating the stories of noteworthy Issei and Nisei and of their supporters, The Great Unknown provides powerful evidence of the diverse experiences and substantial cultural, political, and intellectual contributions of Nikkei throughout the country and over multiple decades.
What is more, The Great Unknown reshapes our understanding of the Asian American experience. By focusing attention on exceptional figures who deviated from social norms, Robinson subverts stereotypes of ethnic Japanese and other Asians as conformist or colorless. The collection also highlights a set of recurring themes absent from conventional histories—including the lives of Japanese Americans outside the West Coast, the role of women in shaping community life, encounters between Japanese American and African American communities during the struggle for civil rights, and the evolving status of queer community members.

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Greg Robinson

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Cover 1
Title page, Copyright, Dedication 2
Contents 8
Foreword 12
By Way of Introduction 16
1. A New Look at Issei Women 24
2. Mixed-Race Japanese Americans 42
3. Literature and Journalism 70
4. Wartime Confinement and Japanese Americans: Nisei Stories 114
5. Wartime Confinement and Japanese Americans: Friends and Foes 140
6. Political Activism and Civil Rights 174
7. Sports 214
8. Arts 228
9. The Queer Heritage of Japanese Americans 262
10. A New Look at the Unknown Great 288
Afterword 330
Selected Bibliography 334
Index 342
Publisher:University Press of Colorado,Published:2016,ISBN:9781607324294,Related ISBN:9781607324287,Language:English,OCLC:957525066
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Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Kenji G. Taguma -- By Way of Introduction -- 1 A New Look at Issei Women -- Issei Women: An Overview -- Shio Sakanishi: Library of Congress Official and Scholar -- Fuki Endow Kawaguchi's Diary1 -- Tel Sono: Issei Woman Lawyer and Missionary -- Ayako Ishigaki: Feminist and Peace Activist -- 2 Mixed-Race Japanese Americans -- Isamu Noguchi's Struggle against Executive Order 9066 -- Kathleen Tamagawa: First Nisei Author -- The Chino and Ohi Families -- Milton Ozaki: Mystery Writer (coauthored with Steven G. Doi)

"Introduces a readable collection of portraits about a group of extraordinary men and women who made remarkable contributions in the arts, literature, law, sports, and other fields, and shed light on largely unknown aspects of Japanese American history"--Provided by publisher

2022-03-08