PAUL SPICKARD is a professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many books, including Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity and coauthor of Is Lighter Better? Skin-Tone Discrimination among Asian Americans.

• List of IllustrationsList of Figures List of TablesPreface to the Revised EditionAcknowledgements to the First Edition1  Japanese Americans and Ethnicity2  The Japan They Left3  Emigrants and Frontiersmen4  Immigrants and Family Folk5  Born in America6  Internment7  Since World War IIAppendix: TablesBibliographic Essay: The State of Japanese American History, 1994 Further Bibliographic Essay: Writing Japanese American History, 1994-2007NotesIndex

" The book is well researched and clearly written, and it provides the reader with perhaps the best single volume on the overall historical experience of Japanese Americans." - Robert C. Sims (Journal of American History)

PAUL SPICKARD is a professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many books, including Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity and coauthor of Is Lighter Better? Skin-Tone Discrimination among Asian Americans.

• List of IllustrationsList of Figures List of TablesPreface to the Revised EditionAcknowledgements to the First Edition1  Japanese Americans and Ethnicity2  The Japan They Left3  Emigrants and Frontiersmen4  Immigrants and Family Folk5  Born in America6  Internment7  Since World War IIAppendix: TablesBibliographic Essay: The State of Japanese American History, 1994 Further Bibliographic Essay: Writing Japanese American History, 1994-2007NotesIndex

" The book is well researched and clearly written, and it provides the reader with perhaps the best single volume on the overall historical experience of Japanese Americans." - Robert C. Sims (Journal of American History)

PAUL SPICKARD is a professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many books, including Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity and coauthor of Is Lighter Better? Skin-Tone Discrimination among Asian Americans.

• List of IllustrationsList of Figures List of TablesPreface to the Revised EditionAcknowledgements to the First Edition1  Japanese Americans and Ethnicity2  The Japan They Left3  Emigrants and Frontiersmen4  Immigrants and Family Folk5  Born in America6  Internment7  Since World War IIAppendix: TablesBibliographic Essay: The State of Japanese American History, 1994 Further Bibliographic Essay: Writing Japanese American History, 1994-2007NotesIndex

" The book is well researched and clearly written, and it provides the reader with perhaps the best single volume on the overall historical experience of Japanese Americans." - Robert C. Sims (Journal of American History)