My article on the 1st gen of Japanese Am voters is finally out! It explores how young JAs responded to anti-Asian racism as they proudly asserted their voting rights as citizens, & shows how the WW2 incarceration suppressed their diverse political culture. Check it out: doi.org/10.1525/phr....
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Left or Right, Loyal or DisloyalIdeology, Partisanship, and Empire in the Construction of Interwar Japanese American Politics
This article examines the first cohort of Japanese American voters in California in the interwar years, in order to explore the construction of racialized parameters on Japanese American political age...