230334 Japanese American Experiences (S) (WiSe 2021/2022)

ONLINE & SYNCHRONOUS.

It was as late as in the nineteenth century that the U.S. saw the arrival of more substantial numbers of Japanese immigrants -- in this context, Japanese Americans are careful to distinguish generational cohorts of Japanese born immigrants, issei, and nisei, sansei and yonsei (children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of immigrants, respectively). Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, U.S. legislation maintained a tight grip not only on immigration but also on bestowing citizenship to and enabling land ownership by Asian Americans. In World War Two, the incarceration of U.S. American Japanese communities in detention camps following President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 in February 19, 1942 was a reaction to the attacks on Pearl Harbor on 17 December, 1941; this measure signaled a culmination of legal, structural and everyday discrimination experienced by Japanese communities throughout the United States and went down as a watershed moment in collective Japanese American memory. While the memory of the internment has continued to loom large in the cultural production by contemporary Japanese Americans, our exploration of fictional and non-fictional texts and films on and by Japanese Americans will go beyond this and shines a light on a variety of issues pertaining to Japanese American experiences.

Requirements for participation, required level

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