A Book Talk and Celebration with Prof. Michael Jin
November 16, 2022
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
Location
Room 1050, 10th Floor, University Hall
Address
601 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
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From the 1910s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 young second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific journeys to the Japanese Empire, putting an ocean between themselves and pervasive anti-Asian racism in the American West.
Based on transnational and bilingual research in the United States and Japan, Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless uncovers the stories of these American emigrants at the crossroads of U.S. and Japanese empires before, during, and after World War II. Nisei migrants redefined ideas about home, identity, citizenship, and belonging as they encountered multiple social realities on both sides of the Pacific. Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless examines the deeply intertwined histories of Asian exclusion in the United States, Japanese colonialism in Asia, and volatile geopolitical changes in the Pacific world that converged in the lives of Japanese American workers, students, sojourners, and survivors of the war in the U.S. -Japan borderlands.
Michael R. Jin is an Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies and History at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is also a member of the UIC Diaspora Studies Cluster. His areas of specialization include migration and diaspora studies, Asian American history, transnational Asia and the Pacific world, critical race and ethnic studies, and the history of the American West.
Date posted
Oct 28, 2022
Date updated
Oct 28, 2022