CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. 1 INTRODUCTION Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest 1
5. 2 WRITING RACIAL BARRIERS INTO LAW Upholding B.C.'s Denial of the Vote to Its Japanese Canadian Citizens, Homma v. Cunningham, 1902 20
6. 3 BECOMING "LOCAL" JAPANESE Issei Adaptive Strategies on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1906-1923 44
7. 4 YASUTARO YAMAGA Fraser Valley Berry Farmer, Community Leader. and Strategist 71
8. 5 AMERICANIZATION VS. JAPANESE CULTURAL MAINTENANCE Analyzing Seattle's Nihongo Tokuhon, 1920 95
9. 6 "THE NAil THAT STICKS UP GETS HIT" The Architecture of Japanese American Identity in the Urban Environment, 1885-1942 120
10. 7 FOUR HIRABAYASHI COUSINS A Question of Identity 146
11. 8 THE MINIDOKA DRAFT RESISTERS IN A FEDERAL KANGAROO COURT 171
12. 9 WORDS DO MATTER A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans 190
13. 10 IN THE MATTER OF IWAO MATSUSHITA A Government Decision to Intern a Seattle Japanese Enemy Alien in World War II 215
14. 11 THE "FREE ZONE" NIKKEI Japanese Americans in Idaho and Eastern Oregon in World War II 236
15. 12 LESSONS IN CITIZENSHIP, 1945-1949 The Delayed Return of the Japanese to Canada's Pacific Coast 254
16. 12 LESSONS IN CITIZENSHIP, 1945-1949 The Delayed Return of the Japanese to Canada's Pacific Coast 254
17. 13 PECULIAR ODYSSEY Newsman Jimmie Omura's Removal from and Regeneration within Nikkei Society, History. and Memory 278
18. 14 RECLAIMING AND REINVENTING "POWELL STREET" Reconstruction of the Japanese Canadian Community in Post-World War II Vancouver 308
19. CONTRIBUTORS 335
20. INDEX 339