Breaking the Japantown Stereotype: Who Were the Japanese and Japanese Americans in Chicago 1865-1940?
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 12 PM to 1 PM
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#NIULibrariesBreaking the Japantown Stereotype: Who Were the Japanese and Japanese Americans in Chicago 1865-1940?
February 28, 12 Noon – 1 p.m., Founders Memorial Library
Most people think of the Japanese as so group-oriented that they would naturally form Japantowns, enclaves for Japanese immigrants in US cities. Yet, unlike their counterparts on the West Coast who were subject to strong racism, the Japanese in Chicago felt free to live where they chose, based on their own sense of individuality and self-identity. Please join Takako and Michael Day to learn about the many and varied lives of Japanese immigrants, as well as their families and their professions, introducing, through Chicago history, a new aspect of Japanese American history in the United States.
Takako Day, originally from Kobe, Japan, is an independent researcher who has published seven books and hundreds of articles in Japanese and English. Her latest English book, Show Me the Way to Go Home: The Moral Dilemma of Kibei No No Boys in World War Two Incarceration Camps, was published in 2014.
Michael Day is Emeritus Professor of English and former Director of the First-Year Composition Program at Northern Illinois University. He earned his PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California with a dissertation on Japanese rhetoric and has published widely on digital rhetoric and teaching with technology. He serves as editor and co-author on this book project.
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