Eiichiro Azuma
Biographic Data
| ID | 1087793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eiichiro Azuma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eiichiro |
| FAMILY NAME | Azuma |
| SIGNATURE | AZUMA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9458-5561 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gary Y. Okihiro and Japanese American History
I was not Gary's formal student but I consider him one of my mentors through his deeds and published works.As a historian of Japanese America, I have benefited greatly from his scholarship, which helped me develop a nuanced understanding of historical agency, especially in relation to the questions of resistance and dependency under racial and economic domination.Because the influence of Gary's scholarship is so vast and far-reaching, discussing …
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations: Migrations, 1800-Present
Volume II presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme …
The Japanese Empire and Latin America
Toward a Transnational History of Wartime Japanese Americans: Nisei and Imperial Japan's Race Propaganda
This essay examines a wartime experience of Japanese Americans (Nisei) in Japan, proposing to view them as US–originated immigrants abroad. Several thousand Nisei resided in their ancestral land at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and many struggled with negative public perceptions associated with their enemy birthland as well as pressures to be assimilated into their racial home. Based on the belief in blood ties, the official demands for…
Reflections on Doing Trans-Imperial History
"The Challenge of Studying the Pacific as a "Global Asia: Problematizing Deep-Rooted Institutional Hindrances for Bridging Asian Studies and Asian American Studies
This essay aims to address the structural barriers that deter the study of "Global Asias"-or even something smaller in scale, the study of the "Pacific"-in the context of the institutional split between Asian studies and Asian American studies
A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965
Chapter 11: The Making of a Japanese American Race, and Why Are There No “Immigrants” in Postwar Nikkei History and Community? The Problems of Generation, Region, and Citizenship in Japanese America
CHAPTER 11: The Making of a Japanese American Race, and Why Are There No “Immigrants” in Postwar Nikkei History and Community? The Problems of Generation, Region, and Citizenship in Japanese America was published in Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies on page 257.
The Study of Asian American Families
Confronting the Racial State of Violence
The Cold War
Reconsidering Asian Exclusion in the United States
East Asian Immigrants
From Asia to the United States, Around the World, and Back Again
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations
The Lure of Military Imperialism: Race, Martial Citizenship, and Minority American Transnationalism during the Cold War
Research Article| January 01 2017 The Lure of Military Imperialism: Race, Martial Citizenship, and Minority American Transnationalism during the Cold War Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma is Alan Charles Kors Term Chair Associate Professor of History and Director of Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (Oxford Universit…
Japanese Immigrant Settler Colonialism in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands and the U.S. Racial-Imperialist Politics of the Hemispheric “Yellow Peril”
The scholarship on the “Yellow Peril” looks at Japanese immigrants (Issei) as an object of anti-Asian racialization in domestic politics or as a distraction in U.S.-Japanese bilateral diplomacy. Seldom do historians consider its ramifications outside those contexts. They also lack perspective on the impact of Issei practice on the geopolitics of Yellow Peril, which spread from California to the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and beyond. This article ex…
The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History
The academic field of Asian American history traces its roots to social movements of the late 1960s, when individuals and communities attempted to expand and challenge the existing frame of United States history to take into account their experiences. There were of course people who had documented and written about Asian Americans in earlier eras, but a recognizable field did not develop until the Asian American movement. The publication of Ronal…
Remapping A Pre-World War Two Japanese Diaspora: Transpacific Migration As An Articulation Of Japan’s Colonial Expansionism
This chapter explores ways that migrations to and from Hawaiʻi shaped and were shaped by the Atlantic and Pacific contexts and questions of who was to keep sovereignty, who was to rule, and who was to be ruled in Hawaiʻi. It focuses on the history of migration and politics of sovereignty, settlement, and belonging in between the 1780s, when Hawaiʻi became a key crossroads to and through which peoples from around the Atlantic and Pacific circulate…
Brokering Race, Culture, and Citizenship: Japanese Americans in Occupied Japan and Postwar National Inclusion
Many problems are being solved here, because the nisei boys in uniform are cooperating to the utmost. We are spreading news of democracy ... and many other good things of life, which the Japanese people ... never knew about ... We are planting the seeds for a New Japan under the kind surveillance of the U.S
"Race, Citizenship, and the "Science of Chick Sexing: The Politics of Racial Identity among Japanese Americans
Chick sexing---the work of separating baby pullets from cockerels---was an important mode of employment for second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei), who dominated the trade between the late 1930s and 1950s. Since their wartime internment experience symbolized the denial of their national belonging on racial grounds, the Nisei politics of identity has been characterized in terms of single-minded assimilation into white America. Yet, instead o…
Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II
Book Review| July 01 2008 Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II, James C. McNaughton. Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2008) 27 (4): 132–133. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501869 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Fac…
Pioneers of Overseas Japanese Development: Japanese American History and the Making of Expansionist Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan
Focusing on intersections of Asian area studies and U.S. ethnic studies, this article probes overlapping but hitherto neglected trajectories of Japanese colonialism and transpacific migrant experience and of modern Japanese history and Japanese American history. Constructed during the 1930s, expansionist orthodoxy of imperial Japan justified and idealized the agricultural colonization of Manchuria on the basis of historical precedence found in a …
Teaching Mikadoism: The Attack on Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii, California, and Washington, 1919-1927
Book Review| October 01 2006 Teaching Mikadoism: The Attack on Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii, California, and Washington, 1919-1927 Teaching Mikadoism: The Attack on Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii, California, and Washington, 1919-1927, Noriko Asato. Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 26 (1): 109–110. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501796 Cite Ic…
Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America
Before World War II, Japanese immigrants, or Issei, forged a unique transnational identity between their native land and the United States. Whether merchants, community leaders, or rural farmers, Japanese immigrants shared a collective racial identity as aliens ineligible for American citizenship, even as they worked to form communities in the American West. At the same time, Imperial Japan considered Issei and their descendents part of its racia…
Pioneers of Overseas Japanese Development: Japanese American History and the Making of Expansionist Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan
Focusing on intersections of Asian area studies and U.S. ethnic studies, this article probes overlapping but hitherto neglected trajectories of Japanese colonialism and transpacific migrant experience and of modern Japanese history and Japanese American history. Constructed during the 1930s, expansionist orthodoxy of imperial Japan justified and idealized the agricultural colonization of Manchuria on the basis of historical precedence found in a …
"Race, Citizenship, and the "Science of Chick Sexing: The Politics of Racial Identity among Japanese Americans
Chick sexing---the work of separating baby pullets from cockerels---was an important mode of employment for second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei), who dominated the trade between the late 1930s and 1950s. Since their wartime internment experience symbolized the denial of their national belonging on racial grounds, the Nisei politics of identity has been characterized in terms of single-minded assimilation into white America. Yet, instead o…
Brokering Race, Culture, and Citizenship: Japanese Americans in Occupied Japan and Postwar National Inclusion
Many problems are being solved here, because the nisei boys in uniform are cooperating to the utmost. We are spreading news of democracy ... and many other good things of life, which the Japanese people ... never knew about ... We are planting the seeds for a New Japan under the kind surveillance of the U.S
Racial Struggle, Immigrant Nationalism, and Ethnic Identity: Japanese and Filipinos in the California Delta
Research Article| May 01 1998 Racial Struggle, Immigrant Nationalism, and Ethnic Identity: Japanese and Filipinos in the California Delta Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1998) 67 (2): 163–199. https://doi.org/10.2307/3641561 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitte…
The Lure of Military Imperialism: Race, Martial Citizenship, and Minority American Transnationalism during the Cold War
Research Article| January 01 2017 The Lure of Military Imperialism: Race, Martial Citizenship, and Minority American Transnationalism during the Cold War Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma is Alan Charles Kors Term Chair Associate Professor of History and Director of Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (Oxford Universit…
The Politics of Transnational History Making: Japanese Immigrants on the Western "Frontier," 1927-1941
Journal Article The Politics of Transnational History Making: Japanese Immigrants on the Western “Frontier,” 1927–1941 Get access Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma assistant professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 4, March 2003, Pages 1401–1430, https://doi.org/10.2307/3092548 Published: 01 M…
The Pacific Era Has Arrived”: Transnational Education among Japanese Americans, 1932–1941
Looking back on the two years at Keisen Girls' School, I am so grateful for the opportunity to have been able to study here.... Our teachers have taught us that it was mistaken if we simply aspired to mimic the ways of Japanese woman. Cognizant of our special position as Americans of Japanese ancestry, we must instead strive to promote the U.S.-Japan friendship. Furthermore, we must adapt the merits of the Japanese spirit [that we have acquired h…
Interethnic Conflict under Racial Subordination: Japanese Immigrants and Their Asian Neighbors in Walnut Grove, California, 1908–1941
(1994). Interethnic Conflict under Racial Subordination: Japanese Immigrants and Their Asian Neighbors in Walnut Grove, California, 1908–1941. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 27-56
Japanese Immigrant Farmers and California Alien Land Laws: A Study of the Walnut Grove Japanese Community
Research Article| April 01 1994 Japanese Immigrant Farmers and California Alien Land Laws: A Study of the Walnut Grove Japanese Community Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (1994) 73 (1): 14–29. https://doi.org/10.2307/25177396 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
Interethnic Conflict under Racial Subordination: Japanese Immigrants and Their Asian Neighbors in Walnut Grove, California, 1908–1941
(1994). Interethnic Conflict under Racial Subordination: Japanese Immigrants and Their Asian Neighbors in Walnut Grove, California, 1908–1941. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 27-56
Racial Struggle, Immigrant Nationalism, and Ethnic Identity: Japanese and Filipinos in the California Delta
Research Article| May 01 1998 Racial Struggle, Immigrant Nationalism, and Ethnic Identity: Japanese and Filipinos in the California Delta Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1998) 67 (2): 163–199. https://doi.org/10.2307/3641561 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitte…
Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49 (review)
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 4, Number 3, October 2001
The Politics of Transnational History Making: Japanese Immigrants on the Western "Frontier," 1927-1941
Journal Article The Politics of Transnational History Making: Japanese Immigrants on the Western “Frontier,” 1927–1941 Get access Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma assistant professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 4, March 2003, Pages 1401–1430, https://doi.org/10.2307/3092548 Published: 01 M…
The Pacific Era Has Arrived”: Transnational Education among Japanese Americans, 1932–1941
Looking back on the two years at Keisen Girls' School, I am so grateful for the opportunity to have been able to study here.... Our teachers have taught us that it was mistaken if we simply aspired to mimic the ways of Japanese woman. Cognizant of our special position as Americans of Japanese ancestry, we must instead strive to promote the U.S.-Japan friendship. Furthermore, we must adapt the merits of the Japanese spirit [that we have acquired h…
The Problem of Generation: Preparing the Nisei for the Future
The related themes of the Issei as pioneers and the Nisei (second generation) as carrying on Japanese development in the United States were central discourses in the upbringing of many American-born youths. However, neither the Issei pioneer thesis nor its interpretation by Nisei orators provided a concrete picture of what the future might hold for the new generation of Japanese Americans. How did Issei leaders expect the American-born to carry o…
Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America
Before World War II, Japanese immigrants, or Issei, forged a unique transnational identity between their native land and the United States. Whether merchants, community leaders, or rural farmers, Japanese immigrants shared a collective racial identity as aliens ineligible for American citizenship, even as they worked to form communities in the American West. At the same time, Imperial Japan considered Issei and their descendents part of its racia…
Teaching Mikadoism: The Attack on Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii, California, and Washington, 1919-1927
Book Review| October 01 2006 Teaching Mikadoism: The Attack on Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii, California, and Washington, 1919-1927 Teaching Mikadoism: The Attack on Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii, California, and Washington, 1919-1927, Noriko Asato. Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 26 (1): 109–110. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501796 Cite Ic…
Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II
Book Review| July 01 2008 Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II, James C. McNaughton. Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2008) 27 (4): 132–133. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501869 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Fac…
Pioneers of Overseas Japanese Development: Japanese American History and the Making of Expansionist Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan
Focusing on intersections of Asian area studies and U.S. ethnic studies, this article probes overlapping but hitherto neglected trajectories of Japanese colonialism and transpacific migrant experience and of modern Japanese history and Japanese American history. Constructed during the 1930s, expansionist orthodoxy of imperial Japan justified and idealized the agricultural colonization of Manchuria on the basis of historical precedence found in a …
Brokering Race, Culture, and Citizenship: Japanese Americans in Occupied Japan and Postwar National Inclusion
Many problems are being solved here, because the nisei boys in uniform are cooperating to the utmost. We are spreading news of democracy ... and many other good things of life, which the Japanese people ... never knew about ... We are planting the seeds for a New Japan under the kind surveillance of the U.S
"Race, Citizenship, and the "Science of Chick Sexing: The Politics of Racial Identity among Japanese Americans
Chick sexing---the work of separating baby pullets from cockerels---was an important mode of employment for second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei), who dominated the trade between the late 1930s and 1950s. Since their wartime internment experience symbolized the denial of their national belonging on racial grounds, the Nisei politics of identity has been characterized in terms of single-minded assimilation into white America. Yet, instead o…
Remapping A Pre-World War Two Japanese Diaspora: Transpacific Migration As An Articulation Of Japan’s Colonial Expansionism
This chapter explores ways that migrations to and from Hawaiʻi shaped and were shaped by the Atlantic and Pacific contexts and questions of who was to keep sovereignty, who was to rule, and who was to be ruled in Hawaiʻi. It focuses on the history of migration and politics of sovereignty, settlement, and belonging in between the 1780s, when Hawaiʻi became a key crossroads to and through which peoples from around the Atlantic and Pacific circulate…
The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History
The academic field of Asian American history traces its roots to social movements of the late 1960s, when individuals and communities attempted to expand and challenge the existing frame of United States history to take into account their experiences. There were of course people who had documented and written about Asian Americans in earlier eras, but a recognizable field did not develop until the Asian American movement. The publication of Ronal…
Japanese Immigrant Settler Colonialism in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands and the U.S. Racial-Imperialist Politics of the Hemispheric “Yellow Peril”
The scholarship on the “Yellow Peril” looks at Japanese immigrants (Issei) as an object of anti-Asian racialization in domestic politics or as a distraction in U.S.-Japanese bilateral diplomacy. Seldom do historians consider its ramifications outside those contexts. They also lack perspective on the impact of Issei practice on the geopolitics of Yellow Peril, which spread from California to the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and beyond. This article ex…
The Study of Asian American Families
Confronting the Racial State of Violence
The Cold War
Reconsidering Asian Exclusion in the United States
East Asian Immigrants
From Asia to the United States, Around the World, and Back Again
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations
The Lure of Military Imperialism: Race, Martial Citizenship, and Minority American Transnationalism during the Cold War
Research Article| January 01 2017 The Lure of Military Imperialism: Race, Martial Citizenship, and Minority American Transnationalism during the Cold War Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma is Alan Charles Kors Term Chair Associate Professor of History and Director of Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (Oxford Universit…
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