Naoko Wake
Biographic Data
| ID | 313950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naoko Wake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naoko |
| FAMILY NAME | Wake |
| SIGNATURE | WAKE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3329-9104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Surviving the Bomb in Diaspora
Uncovering the voices of the Korean diasporic atomic bomb survivors across multilingual and transimperial spaces in archives and memories in East Asia and the Americas, this article explores the historical meaning of compensatory justice for those who have been deprived of their national right of redress. Their lifelong struggles for survival after World War II have hinged on their confrontation with multiple forms of colonial and state violence …
Asian American Disability
Ability has been central to Asian American history, as the notion has importantly shaped the “model minority” trope. A success story of Asian immigrants gaining upward mobility and socio-economic power in the United States by sheer perseverance and practiced efficiency, the trope has been used as a wedge against other racialized minorities—Black Americans in particular—cast as failing to succeed.1 Because of this divide and conquer ideology, perp…
Elaine Black Yoneda
Rachel Schreiber's Elaine Black Yoneda is a concise and informative biography of the relatively well-known, yet under-studied, Communist labor activist. A daughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Elaine Black Yoneda (1906–1988) experienced many instances of anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and anticommunism. Married to Karl Yoneda, also a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America, her life also intersected with the history of…
The Gateway to the Pacific
In World War II's aftermath, the United States engaged in the strategic repair of its relationship to Asia, with an eye toward the enhancement of national security and trade interest. In the making of an American Pacific, US cities and their Asian American residents played key roles, generating not only more economic transactions but also new discourses about race, culture, and community. By delineating the emergence of “transpacific urbanity” in…
Our Voices, Our Histories
Since Asian American history became an established field in the 1970s, the study of women in Asian American and Pacific Islander (Aapi) communities has made rich contributions to U.S. history scholarship. Their experiences have not only challenged the narrow understanding of women's agency surrounding the Black-white binary but also brought fresh insights into U.S. history by critically examining its histories of colonialism, globalism, and neoli…
Discordant Memories
In this study of nuclear culture, Alison Fields sets out to show how traumatic memories of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in 1945 are an ongoing process that refuses to be settled or contained. It is a well-known phenomenon among scholars of the bomb that nuclear memories presented by national institutions—museums and memorial halls, for instance—have frequently reduced a broad range of the bomb’s meanings to a narrow understanding of…
American Survivors
The ‘Hiroshima Maidens’ on Different Shores
This article explores uneven histories of hibakusha (survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in 1945) activism involving publicly visible nuclear injuries. By looking beyond the famous ‘Hiroshima Maidens’ and expanding an intersectional analysis of gender, race and disability to Korean, Japanese and American hibakusha , this article decentralises the scarred Japanese femininity in our understanding of hibakusha history. As Japan's for…
Lack of Empathy Takes the United States Deeper into the Second Cold War
This essay examines a history of US reports on pandemics, which has made it difficult for Americans to feel empathy for affected Asians and Asian Pacific Island Desi Americas (APIDAs). Key examples from the times of HIV/AIDS and SARS show how Asians and APIDAs remained misunderstood in America because of the black-and-white binary that obscures the wide spectrum of others. The resultant lack of empathy is foundational to the current, Cold War-lik…
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis Meet at a Mental Hospital
Psychoanalysis and homosexuality in the United States were both largely in flux between 1910 and 1935. This article sheds light on this unique historical moment by first exploring scholarly discussions of the era’s psychoanalysis and homosexuality, both of which emphasized the transitional nature of therapy and sexuality. By putting two bodies of scholarship into conversation, I also suggest how the historiography might move beyond two oft-cited …
Surviving the Bomb in America
This article explores the little-known history of Japanese American survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. By focusing on this particular group of survivors with a careful attention to their layered citizenship, national belonging, and gender identity, the article makes important connections between the history of the bomb and the history of immigration across the Pacific. U.S. survivors were both American citizens an…
Ran Zwigenberg, Hiroshima
Donna J. Drucker. The Classification of Sex
Alfred C. Kinsey became an American household name after the publications of his volumes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), still two of the best-known studies of human sexual behavior. His research was pathbreaking on many grounds, including his impressively large sample size and his nonhierarchical, nonstigmatizing method of classification. No sex researcher since Kinsey has collected so man…
Response to Edward J. K. Gitre's Review of Private Practices
Sexuality, intimacy and subjectivity in social psychoanalytic thought of the 1920s and 1930s
Homosexuality has been one of the most contested issues in the history of social psychoanalysis. To better understand the issue's medical and social significance, we need a micro‐historical analysis illuminating doctor‐patient interactions in changing historical contexts. This paper sheds light on the clinical practice of the well‐known founder of interpersonal theory, Harry Stack Sullivan (1892–1949), with a focus on four patients: two from the …
On Our Memory of Gay Sullivan
This article examines psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan's approach to the issue of homosexuality. Sullivan (1892-1949), well-known for his interpersonal theory of mental illness, is believed to have accomplished a high recovery rate in his treatment of schizophrenia during the 1920s. Most of his patients, as well as Sullivan himself, were concerned about their "homosexual" orientations. He encouraged physical affection between male patients and m…
The Military, Psychiatry, and "Unfit" Soldiers, 1939 1942
This article examines the psychiatric screening of U.S. soldiers during the Second World War, established by psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949), as a key moment in the public application of clinical psychiatry, as well as a turning point in Sullivan's intellectual and professional career. After a brief look at the ideas and expectations Sullivan brought to the screening system, I discuss a major problem of the screening: the mismatch b…
The Full Story by No Means All Told
Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949) is well known for his interpersonal theory of mental illness, but little is known about how he actually worked as a clinician with patients. This article examines a pivotal time in Sullivan's career at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore from 1922 to 1930. Using clinical records as well as published writings, the article focuses on 2 crucial issues that are not fully addressed either in Sullivan's publi…
Our Voices, Our Histories
Since Asian American history became an established field in the 1970s, the study of women in Asian American and Pacific Islander (Aapi) communities has made rich contributions to U.S. history scholarship. Their experiences have not only challenged the narrow understanding of women's agency surrounding the Black-white binary but also brought fresh insights into U.S. history by critically examining its histories of colonialism, globalism, and neoli…
Surviving the Bomb in America
This article explores the little-known history of Japanese American survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. By focusing on this particular group of survivors with a careful attention to their layered citizenship, national belonging, and gender identity, the article makes important connections between the history of the bomb and the history of immigration across the Pacific. U.S. survivors were both American citizens an…
The Military, Psychiatry, and "Unfit" Soldiers, 1939 1942
This article examines the psychiatric screening of U.S. soldiers during the Second World War, established by psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949), as a key moment in the public application of clinical psychiatry, as well as a turning point in Sullivan's intellectual and professional career. After a brief look at the ideas and expectations Sullivan brought to the screening system, I discuss a major problem of the screening: the mismatch b…
The Full Story by No Means All Told
Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949) is well known for his interpersonal theory of mental illness, but little is known about how he actually worked as a clinician with patients. This article examines a pivotal time in Sullivan's career at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore from 1922 to 1930. Using clinical records as well as published writings, the article focuses on 2 crucial issues that are not fully addressed either in Sullivan's publi…
The Full Story by No Means All Told
Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949) is well known for his interpersonal theory of mental illness, but little is known about how he actually worked as a clinician with patients. This article examines a pivotal time in Sullivan's career at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore from 1922 to 1930. Using clinical records as well as published writings, the article focuses on 2 crucial issues that are not fully addressed either in Sullivan's publi…
The Military, Psychiatry, and "Unfit" Soldiers, 1939 1942
This article examines the psychiatric screening of U.S. soldiers during the Second World War, established by psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949), as a key moment in the public application of clinical psychiatry, as well as a turning point in Sullivan's intellectual and professional career. After a brief look at the ideas and expectations Sullivan brought to the screening system, I discuss a major problem of the screening: the mismatch b…
Sexuality, intimacy and subjectivity in social psychoanalytic thought of the 1920s and 1930s
Homosexuality has been one of the most contested issues in the history of social psychoanalysis. To better understand the issue's medical and social significance, we need a micro‐historical analysis illuminating doctor‐patient interactions in changing historical contexts. This paper sheds light on the clinical practice of the well‐known founder of interpersonal theory, Harry Stack Sullivan (1892–1949), with a focus on four patients: two from the …
On Our Memory of Gay Sullivan
This article examines psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan's approach to the issue of homosexuality. Sullivan (1892-1949), well-known for his interpersonal theory of mental illness, is believed to have accomplished a high recovery rate in his treatment of schizophrenia during the 1920s. Most of his patients, as well as Sullivan himself, were concerned about their "homosexual" orientations. He encouraged physical affection between male patients and m…
Response to Edward J. K. Gitre's Review of Private Practices
Ran Zwigenberg, Hiroshima
Donna J. Drucker. The Classification of Sex
Alfred C. Kinsey became an American household name after the publications of his volumes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), still two of the best-known studies of human sexual behavior. His research was pathbreaking on many grounds, including his impressively large sample size and his nonhierarchical, nonstigmatizing method of classification. No sex researcher since Kinsey has collected so man…
Surviving the Bomb in America
This article explores the little-known history of Japanese American survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. By focusing on this particular group of survivors with a careful attention to their layered citizenship, national belonging, and gender identity, the article makes important connections between the history of the bomb and the history of immigration across the Pacific. U.S. survivors were both American citizens an…
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis Meet at a Mental Hospital
Psychoanalysis and homosexuality in the United States were both largely in flux between 1910 and 1935. This article sheds light on this unique historical moment by first exploring scholarly discussions of the era’s psychoanalysis and homosexuality, both of which emphasized the transitional nature of therapy and sexuality. By putting two bodies of scholarship into conversation, I also suggest how the historiography might move beyond two oft-cited …
Lack of Empathy Takes the United States Deeper into the Second Cold War
This essay examines a history of US reports on pandemics, which has made it difficult for Americans to feel empathy for affected Asians and Asian Pacific Island Desi Americas (APIDAs). Key examples from the times of HIV/AIDS and SARS show how Asians and APIDAs remained misunderstood in America because of the black-and-white binary that obscures the wide spectrum of others. The resultant lack of empathy is foundational to the current, Cold War-lik…
American Survivors
The ‘Hiroshima Maidens’ on Different Shores
This article explores uneven histories of hibakusha (survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in 1945) activism involving publicly visible nuclear injuries. By looking beyond the famous ‘Hiroshima Maidens’ and expanding an intersectional analysis of gender, race and disability to Korean, Japanese and American hibakusha , this article decentralises the scarred Japanese femininity in our understanding of hibakusha history. As Japan's for…
The Gateway to the Pacific
In World War II's aftermath, the United States engaged in the strategic repair of its relationship to Asia, with an eye toward the enhancement of national security and trade interest. In the making of an American Pacific, US cities and their Asian American residents played key roles, generating not only more economic transactions but also new discourses about race, culture, and community. By delineating the emergence of “transpacific urbanity” in…
Our Voices, Our Histories
Since Asian American history became an established field in the 1970s, the study of women in Asian American and Pacific Islander (Aapi) communities has made rich contributions to U.S. history scholarship. Their experiences have not only challenged the narrow understanding of women's agency surrounding the Black-white binary but also brought fresh insights into U.S. history by critically examining its histories of colonialism, globalism, and neoli…
Discordant Memories
In this study of nuclear culture, Alison Fields sets out to show how traumatic memories of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in 1945 are an ongoing process that refuses to be settled or contained. It is a well-known phenomenon among scholars of the bomb that nuclear memories presented by national institutions—museums and memorial halls, for instance—have frequently reduced a broad range of the bomb’s meanings to a narrow understanding of…
Asian American Disability
Ability has been central to Asian American history, as the notion has importantly shaped the “model minority” trope. A success story of Asian immigrants gaining upward mobility and socio-economic power in the United States by sheer perseverance and practiced efficiency, the trope has been used as a wedge against other racialized minorities—Black Americans in particular—cast as failing to succeed.1 Because of this divide and conquer ideology, perp…
Elaine Black Yoneda
Rachel Schreiber's Elaine Black Yoneda is a concise and informative biography of the relatively well-known, yet under-studied, Communist labor activist. A daughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Elaine Black Yoneda (1906–1988) experienced many instances of anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and anticommunism. Married to Karl Yoneda, also a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America, her life also intersected with the history of…
Surviving the Bomb in Diaspora
Uncovering the voices of the Korean diasporic atomic bomb survivors across multilingual and transimperial spaces in archives and memories in East Asia and the Americas, this article explores the historical meaning of compensatory justice for those who have been deprived of their national right of redress. Their lifelong struggles for survival after World War II have hinged on their confrontation with multiple forms of colonial and state violence …
History (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · History (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (6 works)