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Introduction / Reshaping Japanese American History
A Note from Jonathan van Harmelen
Chapter 1. African American Allies
Erna P. Harris / Champion of Equality
Japanese Americans and the Macbeth Legacy
Seeking Will Thomas / A Friend of the Nisei
Howard Thurman and Japanese Americans / Toward the Blessed Community with Peter Eisenstadt
Chapter 2. Japanese Americans and Interracialism
From Kenny Murase to Kenji Murase / The Journey of a Nisei Writer, Scholar, and Activist
Mari Sabusawa Michener / Champion of Civil Rights and Supporter of the Arts
Way Down in Egypt Land / Tamio Wakayama, Civil Rights Photographer
Paul Takagi / A Fearless Advocate
Toshi Ohta Seeger / The Power behind the Music
Chapter 3. Japanese Americans and African Americans
Stepping Over the Color Line / Nikkei at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
African American Scratches on a Nikkei Canvas / Black Characters in Japanese American Literature with Brian Niiya
The Japanese American Press and the History of the N-Word with Jonathan van Harmelen
Chapter 4. The Queer Heritage of Japanese Americans
K. T. Takahashi / Transnational Writer and Activist
Not Just A Single Man / Christopher Isherwood's Nisei Connections
Tondemonai / Recovering a Groundbreaking Asian American Play
Randy Kikukawa and 1980s Asian American Gay Activism
The JACL's Shift to Support for LGBTQ+ Equality
Chapter 5. In Good Faith
Laying Down the Law of Love / The 1936 American Tour of Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa with Bo Tao
Hisaye Yamamoto and the Catholic Worker Movement with Matthieu Langlois
The Undiscovered History of Japanese Americans and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with Christian Heimburger.
Nikkei and the Peace Churches / Mennonites and Brethren with Zacharie Leclair
Chapter 6. Mixed-Race Stories
Kinjiro Matsudaira / Mayor of Edmonston, Maryland with Jonathan van Harmelen
Bernard Spencer Miyaguchi / Ice Skater Extraordinaire
Edith deBecker Sebald / Diplomat
The Enigma of Marion Saki
Ruth Sato Reinhardt / From Chorus Girl to Jazz Momma
Chapter 7. Music
Yoichi Hiraoka / Issei Xylophone Virtuoso with Jonathan van Harmelen
Classical Music in the WRA Camps with Jonathan van Harmelen
Akira Kikukawa and the Japanese American Orchestra with Jonathan van Harmelen
Juilliard-Trained Songbird Mariko Mukai Ando Defied Expectations with Jonathan van Harmelen
Nisei Singer and Civil Rights Activist Ruby Hideko Yoshino with Jonathan van Harmelen
Chapter 8. Literature and Journalism
T. John Fujii / Collaborator or Cosmopolitan?
Bunji Omura / New York Japanese Antifascist Writer and Publicist with Jonathan van Harmelen
Iwao Kawakami's Intriguing Elegy for Topaz
Eddie Shimano and Gerald Chan Sieg with James Sun
Florence Crannell Means / The Woman behind The Moved-Outers
Ayako Ishigaki / Radical Issei Feminist Writer in 1930s America
Chapter 9. The European Nikkei Community
The French (Nikkei) Connection / Japanese Americans in Midcentury Paris
Kikou Yamata / Rediscovering the First Nisei Writer
Agnes Miyakawa / The Toast of Paris
Toshiko Hasegawa / A Nisei at La Scala
Pioneering Nisei Soprano Tomiko (Tomi) Kanazawa
Foujita Discovers the Americas / An Artist's Tour with Seth Jacobowitz
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Credits
Index
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Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction / Reshaping Japanese American History
A Note from Jonathan van Harmelen
Chapter 1. African American Allies
Erna P. Harris / Champion of Equality
Japanese Americans and the Macbeth Legacy
Seeking Will Thomas / A Friend of the Nisei
Howard Thurman and Japanese Americans / Toward the Blessed Community with Peter Eisenstadt
Chapter 2. Japanese Americans and Interracialism
From Kenny Murase to Kenji Murase / The Journey of a Nisei Writer, Scholar, and Activist
Mari Sabusawa Michener / Champion of Civil Rights and Supporter of the Arts
Way Down in Egypt Land / Tamio Wakayama, Civil Rights Photographer
Paul Takagi / A Fearless Advocate
Toshi Ohta Seeger / The Power behind the Music
Chapter 3. Japanese Americans and African Americans
Stepping Over the Color Line / Nikkei at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
African American Scratches on a Nikkei Canvas / Black Characters in Japanese American Literature with Brian Niiya
The Japanese American Press and the History of the N-Word with Jonathan van Harmelen
Chapter 4. The Queer Heritage of Japanese Americans
K. T. Takahashi / Transnational Writer and Activist
Not Just A Single Man / Christopher Isherwood's Nisei Connections
Tondemonai / Recovering a Groundbreaking Asian American Play
Randy Kikukawa and 1980s Asian American Gay Activism
The JACL's Shift to Support for LGBTQ+ Equality
Chapter 5. In Good Faith
Laying Down the Law of Love / The 1936 American Tour of Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa with Bo Tao
Hisaye Yamamoto and the Catholic Worker Movement with Matthieu Langlois
The Undiscovered History of Japanese Americans and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with Christian Heimburger.
Nikkei and the Peace Churches / Mennonites and Brethren with Zacharie Leclair
Chapter 6. Mixed-Race Stories
Kinjiro Matsudaira / Mayor of Edmonston, Maryland with Jonathan van Harmelen
Bernard Spencer Miyaguchi / Ice Skater Extraordinaire
Edith deBecker Sebald / Diplomat
The Enigma of Marion Saki
Ruth Sato Reinhardt / From Chorus Girl to Jazz Momma
Chapter 7. Music
Yoichi Hiraoka / Issei Xylophone Virtuoso with Jonathan van Harmelen
Classical Music in the WRA Camps with Jonathan van Harmelen
Akira Kikukawa and the Japanese American Orchestra with Jonathan van Harmelen
Juilliard-Trained Songbird Mariko Mukai Ando Defied Expectations with Jonathan van Harmelen
Nisei Singer and Civil Rights Activist Ruby Hideko Yoshino with Jonathan van Harmelen
Chapter 8. Literature and Journalism
T. John Fujii / Collaborator or Cosmopolitan?
Bunji Omura / New York Japanese Antifascist Writer and Publicist with Jonathan van Harmelen
Iwao Kawakami's Intriguing Elegy for Topaz
Eddie Shimano and Gerald Chan Sieg with James Sun
Florence Crannell Means / The Woman behind The Moved-Outers
Ayako Ishigaki / Radical Issei Feminist Writer in 1930s America
Chapter 9. The European Nikkei Community
The French (Nikkei) Connection / Japanese Americans in Midcentury Paris
Kikou Yamata / Rediscovering the First Nisei Writer
Agnes Miyakawa / The Toast of Paris
Toshiko Hasegawa / A Nisei at La Scala
Pioneering Nisei Soprano Tomiko (Tomi) Kanazawa
Foujita Discovers the Americas / An Artist's Tour with Seth Jacobowitz
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Credits
Index
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
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P
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