Lon Kurashige

Biographic Data

ID1106926
NAMELon Kurashige
GIVEN NAMESLon
FAMILY NAMEKurashige
SIGNATUREKURASHIGE L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS15
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Race, Revisionism, Ethnic Boundaries, and Japanese American Internment

    Lon KurashigeARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2021References: 14

    Recognizing the centrality of race in US immigration and ethnic history—what is known as the field’s “racial turn”—has been advocated, applauded, and globalized; but it has yet to be examined from a theoretical perspective. To better understand the appeal and limitations of the field’s race-centered analysis, historians can profit from studying the contemporary development of race theory, as well as the revisionism against it. There is a vigorous…

  • Artists and the Invention of Lineage

    Lon KurashigeARTICLEAsian Diasporic Visual Cultures…2020

  • D aniel H. I nouye . Distant Islands

    Open AccessLon KurashigeARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020

    Daniel H. Inouye’s Distant Islands: The Japanese American Community in New York City, 1876–1930s, a rare and thought-provoking book, challenges conventional understanding of Japanese American history. Inouye swings for the fence in multiple ways. It doesn’t matter that he comes up short. The ambition is impressive, and the talent is clear. Scholars of the “racial turn” in immigration and ethnic history should take notice of his use of Max Weber a…

  • Japanese American Celebration and Conflict

    Lon Kurashige, Yong ChenBOOKJapanese American Celebration and…2019Cited by: 7

    Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a particular community over a long period of time. This is an inner history, in which the group identity of one of America's most noteworthy racial minorities ta…

  • Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies

    Eiichiro Azuma, Michael Omi et al.BOOKTrans-Pacific Japanese American…2016

  • Two faces of exclusion

    Lon KurashigeBOOKTwo faces of exclusion2016

    From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the Immigration Act of 1924 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the United States has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian exclusion was not the product of an ongoing national consensus; it was a subject of fierce debate. This book complicates the exclusion story by examining the organized and well-funded opposition to…

  • Transpacific Accommodation and the Defense of Asian Immigrants

    Lon KurashigeARTICLEPacific Historical Review2012

    Studies of California’s anti-Japanese movement in the first half of the twentieth century invariably focus on processes of racial bigotry and misunderstanding. This article instead examines the emergence of an important discourse of racial accommodation, as well as the organized opposition to anti-Japanese policies, that was both consistent with and in opposition to the dominant racism of the day. The analysis focuses on three prominent Californi…

  • Resistance, Collaboration, and Manzanar Protest

    Lon KurashigeARTICLEPacific Historical Review2001Cited by: 1References: 5

    Research Article| August 01 2001 Resistance, Collaboration, and Manzanar Protest Lon Kurashige Lon Kurashige Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2001) 70 (3): 387–417. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2001.70.3.387 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions…

  • The Problem of Biculturalism

    Lon KurashigeARTICLEJournal of American History2000Cited by: 7

    On May 23, 1934, Mihiko Shimizu persuaded the leading association of Japanese immigrants in Los Angeles to establish a celebration in honor of their Americanborn children. Such a Nisei, or second-generation, festival, he asserted, was needed to reenergize the small businesses of Little Tokyo, which no longer enjoyed the rapid growth and prosperity they had in the 191 Os and 1920s.1 Shimizu saw the sluggish market for his dry goods as an indicatio…

  • America's Concentration Camps

    Lon Kurashige, Lon Yuki Kurashige et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    “America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience.” Japanese American National Museum, 369 East First St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 Get access Lon Yuki Kurashige Lon Yuki Kurashige University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 160–162, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945482 Publis…