Papers by Precious Yamaguchi
Journal of Applied Communication Research
Military Spouses with Graduate Degrees: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Thriving Amidst Uncertainty, 2019
With contributors in the fields of communication, psychology, English, law, and others, Military ... more With contributors in the fields of communication, psychology, English, law, and others, Military Spouses with Graduate Degrees: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Thriving amidst Uncertainty utilizes interdisciplinary theories, methods, and approaches to study the educational and care experiences of military spouses with advanced degrees. The contributors to this volume analyze the challenges, struggles, and positive aspects of being military spouse with an advanced degree in both academic and professional contexts. The chapters cover chronological approaches to academic and military identities; academic, professional, a military challenges; and strategies for enhancing academic, military, and professional life. Th expands and focuses on the unique challenges military spouses encounter while in graduate s and while transitioning out of graduate programs into academic and professional contexts, an provides a new resource for military and academic researchers, scholars, and practitioners.
Chapter 1: Los Angeles, 1937: From Cantaloupe Sunrises to the Cantaloupe Farms Chapter 2: The Sig... more Chapter 1: Los Angeles, 1937: From Cantaloupe Sunrises to the Cantaloupe Farms Chapter 2: The Significance of Silence Chapter 3: As a Child, I Did Not Know I Was Japanese...As an Adult, People Do Not Know I'm American Chapter 4: Examining the Crevices In-Between Identities Chapter 5: From Issei to Gosei: Ethnography and Autoethnography of Generations Chapter 6: Growing Up During World War II: Evacuation, Internment, and Labor Chapter 7: Pathways to Memories and Dancing Forward Chapter 8: After the Internment Camps: Strength, Support, and Friendships Chapter 9: Japanese Americans and Japanese Peruvians as Hostages Chapter 10: Rebuilding the American Dream Chapter 11: Saying Goodbye and Keeping the Stories Alive
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt\u27s Executive Order 9066 required all peop... more On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt\u27s Executive Order 9066 required all people of Japanese ancestry in America (one-eighth of Japanese blood or more), living on the west coast to be relocated into internment camps. Over 120,000 people were forced to leave their homes, businesses, and all their belongings except for one suitcase and were placed in barbed-wire internment camps patrolled by armed police. This study looks at narratives, stories, and experiences of Japanese American women who experienced the World War II internment camps through an anti-colonial theoretical framework and ethnographic methods. The use of ethnographic methods and interviews with the generation of Japanese American women who experienced part of their lives in the United State World War II internment camps explores how it affected their lives during and after World War II. The researcher of this study hopes to learn how Japanese American women reflect upon and describe their lives before, during, and after the internment camps, document the narratives of the Japanese American women who were imprisoned in the internment camps, and research how their experiences have been told to their children and grandchildren
Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences, 2021
Pacific Historical Review, 2019
This book would have been a welcome addition to the rich historical studies on Japanese American ... more This book would have been a welcome addition to the rich historical studies on Japanese American (JA) wartime removal and incarceration, if its primary purpose was not to disprove that racism caused this tragic episode in American history. The author is a specialist on home front studies, and it was by chance that he engaged himself in what he calls the "relocation studies." The author extensively read the archival records, ethnic and mainstream newspapers, camp newspapers, etc., and he criticizes what he calls "the race school" in the existing literature, which includes most of the past works on JA incarceration. The first half of the book explains the government's decision for JA removal in the tense atmosphere of military and national insecurity, concluding that the decision was based not on racism but nationalism heightened by the treacherous Japanese attack on American territory. The latter half of the book depicts life in the WRA camps. Describing food, entertainment, amenities, consumer goods, accommodation, education, and religion, the author insists that the "evacuees" were granted a wide range of freedom, comfort, and relative autonomy in the camps, unlike the inmates in "real concentration camps" under the Nazi rule. The author argues that the blame for the JA incarceration should be laid on imperial Japan, not on the American public and their government. Despite its impressive bibliography, this book offers little to challenge the widely accepted view that JA incarceration was racist. This is because the author defines racism as the majority positing the "other" as subhuman, serpents, lice, vermin, etc., and as such, a collective peril (p. xiii). Any
Genealogy, 2017
This article explores a Japanese American family mortuary and its 100 years of service and involv... more This article explores a Japanese American family mortuary and its 100 years of service and involvement with the Japanese American community in Los Angeles through five generations of the Fukui family. The Fukui Mortuary is Los Angeles's oldest Japanese American family mortuary and has provided the Japanese American community with services relating to death and bereavement for nearly a century. Through autoethnographic and ethnographic methods, this research examines a site within the Japanese American community after World War II where death, ethnicity, nationality and gender intersect. Studying the cultural and traditional options people have to negotiate, participate and engage in one's cultural practices during a time of death allows us to investigate the structures of power, economics and institutions that are embedded in our histories and societies. Through the mobilization and service of cultural traditions related to death, the Fukui mortuary contributes to the story of Japanese Americans and how ideas of death, religion, gender and ethnicity are situated in community involvement and the genealogy of the Fukui family.
HowlRound Theatre Commons, 2017
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Genealogy , 2017
This article explores a Japanese American family mortuary and its 100 years of service and involv... more This article explores a Japanese American family mortuary and its 100 years of service and involvement with the Japanese American community in Los Angeles through five generations of the Fukui family. The Fukui Mortuary is Los Angeles's oldest Japanese American family mortuary and has provided the Japanese American community with services relating to death and bereavement for nearly a century. Through autoethnographic and ethnographic methods, this research examines a site within the Japanese American community after World War II where death, ethnicity, nationality and gender intersect. Studying the cultural and traditional options people have to negotiate, participate and engage in one's cultural practices during a time of death allows us to investigate the structures of power, economics and institutions that are embedded in our histories and societies. Through the mobilization and service of cultural traditions related to death, the Fukui mortuary contributes to the story of Japanese Americans and how ideas of death, religion, gender and ethnicity are situated in community involvement and the genealogy of the Fukui family.
Uncensored Relationships and the Stories to Build Them By (Or Not), 2018
Photography and technology have always played a role in my exploration of cultural identity and h... more Photography and technology have always played a role in my exploration of cultural identity and heritage, especially in understanding the generations of my family who arrived to the United States by ship in the late 1880s. Like many people living in the United States, we are or have had brave family members who left their homelands behind and risked so much to establish new lives in this country and other countries all over the world. My ancestors left Japan centuries ago in order to start a new life in the United States, knowing they would never return back to Japan; these are my family members whom I never had the opportunity to meet but who have made it possible for my great grandparents, grandparents, parents, my brother and I, and now my son, to live in this country as U.S. citizens. The photo below of my ancestors in 1918 shows how they represented themselves through the image. I can see they were committed to representing themselves as Americans, as there is no traditional or formal Japanese attire in sight. The photo displaying the military uniform, the western suits, the dresses, and my family with multiple generations was taken with the purpose to send a print back to Japan, to communicate to my ancestors back in their homeland that they were doing well and were prosperous in the United States. Through autoethnographic methods, we will examine ways technology, culture, and communication intersect through 360-degree and mobile photography and how technology, culture, and communication in uence each other. I use my own Japanese
Books by Precious Yamaguchi
Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences, 2021
The stories of first-generation Japanese Americans are complex and reveal the personal and famili... more The stories of first-generation Japanese Americans are complex and reveal the personal and familial challenges they faced in the United States. These positive and negative experiences have had the power to influence the following generations to come. This chapter focuses on the film American Pastime and how this story about the Nomura family is loosely based upon the real-life Nakano family's experiences in the Japanese American World War II internment camp. This chapter also goes beyond analyzing the film, American Pastime, to discuss the importance of disrupting the representation of Japanese Americans and their family narratives as model minorities through examining the complexities of assimilation, imprisonment, and the challenges first-generation Japanese Americans faced, using the Nakano family's intricate history as an example. American Pastime is a film about a Japanese American family imprisoned in the Topaz Relocation Camp in Utah and the role baseball played in internment camp life. The main characters in this film, the twins Lane and Lyle Nomura, played by
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