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3 On Becoming an Okinawan and a Feminist: My Path to an Americanist Career
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Ikue Kina
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction 1
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PART I America, Japan, Okinawa
- 1 Memories of an Okinawan Americanist 21
- 2 American Paralysis: Floating Homeland, Family, and Masculinity 37
- 3 On Becoming an Okinawan and a Feminist: My Path to an Americanist Career 56
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PART II FAMILY TIES
- 4 Learning “America” from the Mennonites 75
- 5 The Land She Could Never Call Home Again: “America” in My Family History 88
- 6 Navigating the Sea of Fatherhood across the Pacific 104
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PART III EMBODIED LIVES, GROUNDED CAREERS
- 7 The Accidental Mirror: The Shine and Shatter of My American Dream 121
- 8 An Americanist from a Different Shore, and Gazing Back at Japan 137
- 9 Loneliness, Laughter, and Belonging: A Feminist View of an Asian in America 149
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PART IV DIFFERENT SHORES, MULTIPLE BORDERS
- 10 An Accidental Historian: My Journey in Research on Japanese North American Community Activism 165
- 11 An Americanist Who Sees the US from the Peripheries 185
- 12 Making of a Transpacific Americanist via Latin America: Myself Discovered through Immigration History 202
- Contributors 219
- Index 223
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction 1
-
PART I America, Japan, Okinawa
- 1 Memories of an Okinawan Americanist 21
- 2 American Paralysis: Floating Homeland, Family, and Masculinity 37
- 3 On Becoming an Okinawan and a Feminist: My Path to an Americanist Career 56
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PART II FAMILY TIES
- 4 Learning “America” from the Mennonites 75
- 5 The Land She Could Never Call Home Again: “America” in My Family History 88
- 6 Navigating the Sea of Fatherhood across the Pacific 104
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PART III EMBODIED LIVES, GROUNDED CAREERS
- 7 The Accidental Mirror: The Shine and Shatter of My American Dream 121
- 8 An Americanist from a Different Shore, and Gazing Back at Japan 137
- 9 Loneliness, Laughter, and Belonging: A Feminist View of an Asian in America 149
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PART IV DIFFERENT SHORES, MULTIPLE BORDERS
- 10 An Accidental Historian: My Journey in Research on Japanese North American Community Activism 165
- 11 An Americanist Who Sees the US from the Peripheries 185
- 12 Making of a Transpacific Americanist via Latin America: Myself Discovered through Immigration History 202
- Contributors 219
- Index 223