3 On Becoming an Okinawan and a Feminist: My Path to an Americanist Career

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I America, Japan, Okinawa
6. 1 Memories of an Okinawan Americanist 21
7. 2 American Paralysis: Floating Homeland, Family, and Masculinity 37
8. 3 On Becoming an Okinawan and a Feminist: My Path to an Americanist Career 56
9. PART II FAMILY TIES
10. 4 Learning “America” from the Mennonites 75
11. 5 The Land She Could Never Call Home Again: “America” in My Family History 88
12. 6 Navigating the Sea of Fatherhood across the Pacific 104
13. PART III EMBODIED LIVES, GROUNDED CAREERS
14. 7 The Accidental Mirror: The Shine and Shatter of My American Dream 121
15. 8 An Americanist from a Different Shore, and Gazing Back at Japan 137
16. 9 Loneliness, Laughter, and Belonging: A Feminist View of an Asian in America 149
17. PART IV DIFFERENT SHORES, MULTIPLE BORDERS
18. 10 An Accidental Historian: My Journey in Research on Japanese North American Community Activism 165
19. 11 An Americanist Who Sees the US from the Peripheries 185
20. 12 Making of a Transpacific Americanist via Latin America: Myself Discovered through Immigration History 202
21. Contributors 219
22. Index 223