Who Are the Japanese American Millennials?
A book event presented by Berkeley JACL and J-Sei
Sunday, February 9th, 2 pm
J-Sei, 1285 66th Street, Emeryville
Hear from contributing writers Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani and Jane Yamashiro with editors Michael Omi and Dana Nakano.
Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, Japanese American Millennials captures the experiences, perspectives, and aspirations of Asian Americans born between 1980 and 2000.
The editors and contributors present multiple perspectives on who Japanese Americans are, how they think about notions of community and culture, and how they engage and negotiate multiple social identities. The essays by scholars both in the United States and Japan draw upon the Japanese American millennial experience to examine how they find self-expression in Youth Basketball Leagues or Christian youth camps as well as how they grapple with being mixed-race, bicultural, or queer.
Book sales, signing and refreshments to follow. RSVP requested to jill@j-sei.org
Editors
- Michael Omi is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the co-author (with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (3rd edition).
- Dana Y. Nakano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Gerontology, and Gender Studies at California State University, Stanislaus.
- Jeffrey T. Yamashita is a Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. (unable to attend)
Presenting Contributors
- Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani is a Lecturer in the Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies Program of the UC Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies and co-editor of Mountain Movers: Student Activism & The Emergence of Asian American Studies(UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2019).
- Jane H. Yamashiro is a Research Justice at the Intersections Fellow at Mills College, and author of Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland.