Karen M Inouye

Biographic Data

ID825808
NAMEKaren M Inouye
GIVEN NAMESKaren M
FAMILY NAMEInouye
SIGNATUREINOUYE K M
AFFILIATIONSIndiana University Bloomington
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • No Simple History: Nikkei Incarceration on Indigenous Lands

    Open AccessKaren M InouyeARTICLEJournal of Transnational American…2024References: 12

    The wartime imprisonment of Nikkei on Indigenous lands has been recognized as having produced a double displacement under the auspices of American settler colonialism. Less clearly understood are the forms of postwar political awareness that this displacement provoked in Nikkei inmates, especially those who were children or teenagers at the time. One determining factor in our lack of understanding is the fact that mass incarceration, like the mis…

  • The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration

    Karen M InouyeBOOKThe Long Afterlife of Nikkei…2018

  • Excerpt from The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration

    Open AccessKaren M InouyeARTICLEJournal of Transnational American…2018

    The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. Karen M. Inouye explores how historical events can linger in individual and collective memory and then crystallize in powerful moments of political engagement

  • Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations

    Karen M Inouye, Karen InouyeARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies grew out of scholarly conferences held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the state of the field. The editors assembled a stable of authors who explore topics that have received little attention to date, largely because the study of wartime incarceration has occupied center stage in the literature. Organized into eight groups, the volume's contributors illustrate the diversity of scholarship on both sides …

  • Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887-1920

    Karen M InouyeARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    Kazuhiro Oharazeki's book recounts the previously untold story of Japanese immigrants who left Japan for the United States and Canada to work as prostitutes. It complicates the more familiar story of Japanese American history, which has long focused on Japanese men who immigrated and set up small businesses or farms, saved up money to purchase homes, later sent for their wives, had Nisei children, and eventually established Japanese American comm…

  • The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration

    Open AccessKaren M InouyeBOOKThe Long Afterlife of Nikkei…2016

    This book maps the terrain of memory in the wake of large-scale injustice, using five case studies of how the unjust wartime imprisonment of Nikkei in North America has reverberated in both Canada and the United States over the past six decades: politically engaged sociological writing in the 1960s and 1970s, the rise of personal disclosure during American efforts at redress, the political and cultural questions that arose in Canadian redress wor…

  • Visual Games and the Unseeing of Race in the Late Nineteenth Century

    Open AccessBret Rothstein, Bret L Rothstein et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2016References: 5

    This article discusses the material and visual culture of popular ludic racism in the later nineteenth-century United States, with particular attention to an 1896 craze for Get off the Earth, an important mechanical puzzle designed by Sam Loyd. Using letters and articles published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as a case study, the authors note a peculiar quality in the racism of the puzzle itself as well as in contemporaneous newspaper articles, ad…

  • Eternal Present: Retroactive Diplomas in Canada and the US

    Karen M InouyeARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2014References: 3

    Through an examination of recent events—specifically retroactive graduation ceremonies and related legislative and educational policies in the United States and Canada—this essay concerns the most recent incarnation of wartime incarceration. It explores how and why this 1940s moment continues to shape public policy despite the redress movement and the 1988 Civil Liberties Act

  • Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America

    Karen M InouyeARTICLEJournal of American History2012Cited by: 6

    Journal Article Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America Get access Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America. By Shelley Sang-Hee Lee. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. xiv, 256 pp. $58.50.) Karen M. Inouye Karen M. Inouye Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…

  • Japanese American Wartime Experience, Tamotsu Shibutani and Methodological Innovation, 1942-1978

    Open AccessKaren M InouyeARTICLEJournal of the History of the…2012Cited by: 3References: 19

    A case study of how wartime internment reverberated in the life and work of Japanese American intellectuals, this essay discusses the career and interests of Tamotsu Shibutani, a sociologist who began his training as part of Dorothy Swaine Thomas' Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS). Though recent scholarship has noted some of the ethical problems that attended the use of Japanese American participant observers during the w…

  • Viewing World War II Internment through Emiko Omori’s Rabbit in the Moon

    Karen M InouyeARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2011