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Suggestions for Further Study
Immigration, Citizenship Policy, and the
Production of Whiteness


Tamura, Eileen.  Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity: The Nisei Generation in Hawaii. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. 

A study of, among other things, Americanization campaigns in Hawaii as they affected second-generation Japanese immigrants.

Daniels, Roger. The Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1962.

The story of racial discrimination and how it was transformed into law in California.

Lomawaima, Tsianina. They Called it Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

A chronicle of a boarding school for Native Americans that reveals government policies of forced assimilation and Indian strategies for cultural adaptation.

Kennedy, Kathleen.  Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion During World War I.  Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1999.

A study of the use of the Alien and Sedition Acts against women radicals and reformers during World War I.

Mock, James R and Cedric Larson. Words That Won the War: The Story of the Committee on Public Information, 1917-1919. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1939.

A study of the committee in charge of swaying public opinion during WWI.

More Books of Interest

Smith, Rogers.  Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History.  New Haven: Yale, 1997.

Carefully detailed review of the overall history of citizenship rights and patterns of exclusions in U.S. history.

Hing, Bill Ong. Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration policy, 1850-1990Palo Alto, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1993.

A study of Asian immigration policy and how it has affected the Asian American community. Available in the Law Library.

Lopez, Ian F. Haney. White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Essays on race and the law, including a study of the Ozawa and Thind cases.

McClain, Charles, ed. Japanese Immigrants and American Law: The Alien Land Laws and Other Issues. New York: Garland Publishers, 1994.

A collection of essays.

Film and Video

Tapestry: Asian Women in America. 55 m. 1991. Videorecording.

History of early Asian immigration to the United States from 1840 to the post-World War II period. A slide show about mothers, grandmothers, women who worked in the homes, fields and factories to insure the survival of their families. Available in Knight Library.

Starewicz's Fantasies. Directed and written by Wladyslaw Starewicz. 58 min. 1992.

"Starewicz's fantasies, Wladislaw Starewicz's later puppet animation is now better known than his brilliant beginning at the Khanzhonkov Studio. He pioneered insect-puppets in The ant and the grasshopper (1911), before turning to live-action fantasy in a version of Gogol's Christmas eve (1913) and contributing to the war effort with an anti-German allegory The lily of Belgium (1915). 58 minutes"--Notes from publisher. Available in Knight Library.

Web Sites

Asiatic Coolie Invasion

A report from a 1906 meeting of the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League of San Francisco, presented by the Museum of the City of San Francisco.http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906.2/invasion.html

 

Put Yourself There: 
      Debates, Documents, and First Person Accounts

Japanese Exclusion League. Journal/ Japanese Exclusion League. Portland: Japanese Exclusion League, 1945.

An issue of a journal put out by the Japanese Exclusion League. In the Oregon Collections, Knight Library.

McClatchy, Valentine Stuart, ed. Four Anti-Japanese Pamphlets. New York: Arno Press, 1978.

Reprint of four anti-Japanese pamphlets issued by private individuals and organizations between 1919-1925.

Creel, George. How We Advertised America: The First Telling of the Amazing Story of the Committee on Public Information That Carried the Gospel of Americanism to Every Corner of the Globe. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1920.

The story of the Committee on Public Information from the viewpoint of its director.