Description | Transnational and spatial stories of becoming Nisei in pre-WWII Tacoma with Mary Hanneman and Lisa Hoffman, UW Tacoma Drawing on their recently published coauthored book, Becoming Nisei: Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma (UW Press), Drs. Hanneman and Hoffman will explore how both Meiji Japanese practices and daily urban lives in prewar Tacoma shaped second generation Japanese American subjectivity. Through stories drawn from the 42 Nisei they interviewed, this talk will discuss, for example, the impact of Japan's Imperial Rescript on Education at Tacoma's Japanese Language School, the importance of alien land laws, and the spatial processes of self-formation as well as community destruction with wartime incarceration. They will also share maps and other ephemera from their archival research. Lisa Hoffman has been faculty in the School of Urban Studies at UW Tacoma since 2002. She has a PhD in cultural anthropology and MA in China Regional Studies. Her scholarship focuses on questions of subject formation, spatiality, and power dynamics in both urban China and the U.S. She is the author of Fostering Talent: Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China (Temple U Press, 2010) and coeditor of Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday (U Georgia Press, 2015). Mary Hanneman teaches in the School of Interdisciplinary arts and Sciences at UWT. She teaches modern East Asian history with a specialization in modern Japanese history. She is the author of Hasegawa Nyozekan and Liberalism in Modern Japan (Global Oriental, 2007) and Japan Faces the World: 1925-1952 (Longman Press, 2001) and lead author of the textbook, Modern East Asia: China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam in the Modern Era (Cognella Press, 2017). |
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