Introduction: Ethnic heritage across the generations: racialization, transnationalism, and homeland
History and the second generation
The prewar Nisei: Americanization and nationalist belonging
The postwar Nisei: biculturalism and transnational identities
Racialization, citizenship, and heritage
Assimilation and loss of ethnic heritage among third-generation Japanese Americans
The struggle for racial citizenship among later-generation Japanese Americans
Ethnic revival among fourth-generation Japanese Americans
Ethnic heritage, performance, and diasporicity
Japanese American taiko and the remaking of tradition
Performative authenticity and fragmented empowerment through taiko
Diasporicity and Japanese Americans
Conclusion: Japanese Americans ethnic legacies and the future.