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Sakoda, Kent; Tamura, Eileen H. – Educational Perspectives, 2008
For a number of years, Kent Sakoda has been teaching at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in the Department of Second Language Studies. His course, "Pidgin and Creole English in Hawai'i," is popular among students on campus. He has also taught at Hawai'i Pacific University. Because of his expertise on the grammar of Pidgin (Hawai'i…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Pidgins, Creoles, Japanese

James, Thomas – History of Education Quarterly, 1985
In 1942 the U.S. government evacuated more than 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and placed them in relocation centers. This article talks about the more than 4,000 Japanese American students who were allowed to leave the centers to study in colleges and universities throughout the United States. (RM)
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Opportunities, Higher Education, Japanese American Culture
Sakamoto, Taylor – History Teacher, 2007
The author lives in a place filled with opportunities for girls like her. She is fortunate to attend school and enjoy activities like other young ladies. Her third- and fourth-generation parents encouraged her to attend Japanese Cultural School to learn about her heritage and to be proud of being Japanese-American. Her life has been filled with…
Descriptors: Females, Asians, Japanese Americans, Racial Discrimination

Chang, Alice – RQ, 1971
The 168 titles selected in this bibliography are about the conditions of Orientals in the United States today and yesterday, the cultural and historical background which dominates their way of thinking and living, and their American acculturation. (Author)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Chinese Americans, Chinese Culture, Ethnic Groups
McCormick, Theresa M. – Social Education, 2008
Decision making is one of the essential skills advocated by the National Council for the Social Studies for effective citizenship in a democratic society. Leaders in any society make decisions that influence many lives. In a democratic society, we expect that deductive and inductive reasoning guide decisions made for the common good. However, what…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Japanese Americans
Kuroda, Yasumasa; And Others – Ethnicity, 1978
Attitudinal aspects of Japanese culture are focused upon in order to examine to what extent and in what ways Japanese character is found among Japanese Americans in Honolulu. Several suggestions are offered as to what constitute good indicators of the extent to which Japanese characteristics are maintained. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Japanese American Culture
Lain, Brian – 2001
An exhibit, "Common Ground: The Heart of Community," tells the story of Japanese Americans in the United States as an example of a vibrant ethnic group that survived hard times and continue to stay together. The exhibit is housed in the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles (California). This paper describes and…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Cultural Context, Exhibits, Higher Education
Williamson, Joy Ann; Rhodes, Lori; Dunson, Michael – Review of Research in Education, 2007
A history of social justice in education is useful for at least two reasons. First, competing notions of social justice in education are not new. Tension between a belief in assimilation and the ability of individuals to climb the meritocratic ladder and the belief in a respect for cultural and linguistic differences and a flattening of the…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Educational History, American Indians, Japanese Americans
Wu, Hui – College Composition and Communication, 2007
By reflecting on Japanese internment camps executed by the U.S. government in World War II, this article examines camp schools' curricula and writing assignments and an English teacher's response to student essays to show how racially profiled students and their Caucasian teacher negotiated the political meanings of civil rights and freedom.…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Civil Rights, War, Essays
Camicia, Steven P. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2008
Frame analysis was used to examine how competing stakeholders framed a sixth grade curriculum controversy over whether the WWII internment of Japanese Americans should be categorized as a controversial issue. Teachers and administrators in a northwestern U.S. school claimed that the internment was clearly wrong and not controversial, but these…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Social Studies, Controversial Issues (Course Content), War
Fukei, Budd – 1976
This book presents a view of the Japanese American experience from the time of their immigration to this country in the 1800s to their acculturation into American society in the 1970s. Topics dealt with include the prejudice and mistrust experienced by the Japanese immigrants in this country, particularly their evacuation and internment in…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Background, Historiography, History
Schwartz, Audrey James – 1970
Americans of Japanese ancestry rank higher than any other physically identifiable subgroup on positive attributes and lowest on negative ones. The thesis of this paper is that their success depends more on the value orientations that differentiate the two groups than upon those held in common. Data were obtained from a survey of 2200 pupils…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Educational Attitudes, Goal Orientation, Japanese American Culture

Tinker, John N. – Journal of Social Issues, 1973
Intermarriage is an especially sensitive indicator of the permeability of ethnic boundaries; a survey of the marriage records of Japanese Americans in Fresno, California indicates that both the pattern of intermarriage and the rate of intermarriage have changed noticeably in the last decade. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Ethnic Relations, Family Role, Females
Connor, John W., Comp. – 1977
This bibliography describes and briefly reviews, from an anthropological perspective, books and articles on the Japanese in the United States. Works cited include: (1) bibliographies; (2) general studies on Japanese Americans; (3) works dealing with the cultural heritage of the Japanese immigrant generation; (4) literature on the Japanese…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Anthropology, Citations (References), Cross Cultural Studies

La Duke, Betty – Art Education, 1987
Presents a biography of Mine Okubo, a prolific Japanese-American artist who was among the thousands of Japanese imprisoned in "relocation camps" during World War II. Provides insights into Ms. Okubo's philosophy as well as the phases of her art, emphasizing her role as a living repository and documentor of Japanese-American history. (JDH)
Descriptors: Art, Art History, Higher Education, Japanese American Culture