Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction. Imperatives of Asian American Citizenship 1
5. Part I. War and the Assimilating Other
6. Chapter 1. Leave Your Zoot Suits Behind 11
7. Chapter 2. How American Are We? 43
8. Chapter 3. Nisei in Uniform 72
9. Chapter 4. America’s Chinese 111
10. Part II. Definitively Not-Black
11. Chapter 5. Success Story, Japanese American Style 145
12. Chapter 6. Chinatown Offers Us a Lesson 181
13. Chapter 7. The Melting Pot of the Pacific 210
14. Epilogue. Model Minority/Asian American 242
15. Notes 259
16. Archival, Primary, and Unpublished Sources 333
17. Index 341