Japanese-American Language Behavior
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8730371 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert F Spencer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 241-241 |
| Publication date | 1950-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/453256 |
| OpenAlex | W2319889581 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
IN THE years following the end of the recent war, the Japanese-American minority has begun to achieve a status approaching near equality in terms of the contemporary society of the United States.' Since the group remains racially distinct, it is doubtful that it will ever be completely assimilated. The present situation is such that the members of the group are forced into a caste-like structure which, although emulating more and more the prevailing ways of American life and repudiating Japanese patterns, continues to be distinct and to be located at the fringes of the greater society. It is certainly true that a significant effect of war and its accompanying enforced mass migration was to draw together a group hitherto dominated by members of an immigrant generation, with its close ties to the Japanese homeland, and to release one in which the Americanized children of immigrants were free to assume the reins of group leadership, however reluctant they may have been to take them.2 The social composition of the Japanese-American minority group is now so well known as the result of publicity arising from the war situation as to require little comment here. Indeed, the terms issei, nisei, and kibei, drawn however inaccurately from colloquial Japanese, have become commonplace and are widely understood and used among non-Japanese in the United States today. The age and generation distinctions implied by these terms are recognized by members of the group who employ them with some accuracy as definitive of social role. In these concepts as they
Caste · Ethnic group · Homeland · Immigration · Minority group · Political economy · Political science · Publicity · Social group · Social science · Sociology · World War II · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Gender Studies · History · Law
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Selected works on Asian Pacific American language practices
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Appropriation of African American slang by Asian American youth1
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2022 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |