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Loading... City Girls: The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950by Valerie J. Matsumoto
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Even before wartime incarceration, Japanese Americans largely lived in separate cultural communities from their West Coast neighbors. Although the Nisei children, the American-born second generation, were U.S. citizens and were integrated in public schools, they were socially isolated in many ways from their peers. These young women found rapport in ethnocultural youth organizations, a forgotten world of female friendship and camaraderie that Valerie J. Matsumoto recovers in this book. Through extensive networks of social clubs, young Japanese American women competed in sports, socialized with No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.04956History and Geography North America United States United States Ethnic And National Groups Other Groups Asian Americans Japanese AmericansLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |