David K. Yoo is a professor of Asian American studies and history at UCLA. His books include Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945.

• Front CoverTitleCopyrightContentsForeword by Roger DanielsPrefaceIntroduction1. The ABCs of a Nisei Education2. Keeping the Faith3. Making the Headlines4. The Firestorm of War and Incarceration5. Insiders of the Outside: Nisei Journalists and Wartime Editorials6. Recording Nisei Experiences: The Kikuchi Life HistoriesEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndexBack Cover

"Yoo has wrought a lively and innovative portrait of California's Nisei, the second generation Japanese Americans. Treating the decades between the passage of the 1924 Immigration Act and the 1949 trial of Iva Toguri, Yoo's account is knit together by a careful examination of Nisei discourses on identity that occurred in and around key community institutions: ethnic schools, churches, and the vernacular press."--California History"Sharply focused and well written, this scholarly monograph analyzes the 'niche culture' developed by California's Nisei community between the Immigration Act of 1924, which ended further Japanese migration, and the post-World War II adjustment to the incarceration of the Japanese-American community."--Multicultural Review"What did it mean to live as a young Japanese American in California from the 1920s through World War II? This is the question that David Yoo seeks to examine in his carefully researched and thoughtful social history."--Western Historical Quarterly

David K. Yoo is a professor of Asian American studies and history at UCLA. His books include Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945.

• Front CoverTitleCopyrightContentsForeword by Roger DanielsPrefaceIntroduction1. The ABCs of a Nisei Education2. Keeping the Faith3. Making the Headlines4. The Firestorm of War and Incarceration5. Insiders of the Outside: Nisei Journalists and Wartime Editorials6. Recording Nisei Experiences: The Kikuchi Life HistoriesEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndexBack Cover

"Yoo has wrought a lively and innovative portrait of California's Nisei, the second generation Japanese Americans. Treating the decades between the passage of the 1924 Immigration Act and the 1949 trial of Iva Toguri, Yoo's account is knit together by a careful examination of Nisei discourses on identity that occurred in and around key community institutions: ethnic schools, churches, and the vernacular press."--California History"Sharply focused and well written, this scholarly monograph analyzes the 'niche culture' developed by California's Nisei community between the Immigration Act of 1924, which ended further Japanese migration, and the post-World War II adjustment to the incarceration of the Japanese-American community."--Multicultural Review"What did it mean to live as a young Japanese American in California from the 1920s through World War II? This is the question that David Yoo seeks to examine in his carefully researched and thoughtful social history."--Western Historical Quarterly

David K. Yoo is a professor of Asian American studies and history at UCLA. His books include Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945.

• Front CoverTitleCopyrightContentsForeword by Roger DanielsPrefaceIntroduction1. The ABCs of a Nisei Education2. Keeping the Faith3. Making the Headlines4. The Firestorm of War and Incarceration5. Insiders of the Outside: Nisei Journalists and Wartime Editorials6. Recording Nisei Experiences: The Kikuchi Life HistoriesEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndexBack Cover

"Yoo has wrought a lively and innovative portrait of California's Nisei, the second generation Japanese Americans. Treating the decades between the passage of the 1924 Immigration Act and the 1949 trial of Iva Toguri, Yoo's account is knit together by a careful examination of Nisei discourses on identity that occurred in and around key community institutions: ethnic schools, churches, and the vernacular press."--California History"Sharply focused and well written, this scholarly monograph analyzes the 'niche culture' developed by California's Nisei community between the Immigration Act of 1924, which ended further Japanese migration, and the post-World War II adjustment to the incarceration of the Japanese-American community."--Multicultural Review"What did it mean to live as a young Japanese American in California from the 1920s through World War II? This is the question that David Yoo seeks to examine in his carefully researched and thoughtful social history."--Western Historical Quarterly