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Valerie Matsumoto (UCLA) and Tritia Toyota (UCLA), General Editors

nikkei logoThe George and Sakaye Aratani Nikkei in the Americas Series endeavors to present the best scholarship available that illustrates the evolving nature of contemporary Nikkei identities and communities, with special attention to innovative scholarship, perspectives, as well as relevant creative contributions to the field. Thanks to the vision of founding editor Lane Hirabayashi, numerous scholars have found a home—and will continue to find a home—for their work in this series.

All proposals for the this series should follow the press submission guidelines, and submission will be evaluated by the press acquisitions staff, the series editors and/or editorial board, as well as outside experts.

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University Press of Colorado - Nikkei in the Americas

Barbed Voices

Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster

  • by Arthur A. Hansen
University Press of Colorado - Nikkei in the Americas

Beyond the Betrayal

The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience

  • by Yoshito Kuromiya, edited by Arthur A. Hansen
University Press of Colorado - Nikkei in the Americas

Distant Islands

The Japanese American Community in New York City, 1876-1930s

  • by Daniel H. Inouye
University Press of Colorado - Nikkei in the Americas

Forced Out

A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America

  • by Judy Y. Kawamoto
University Press of Colorado - Nikkei in the Americas

Japanese Brazilian Saudades

Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production

  • by Ignacio López-Calvo
University Press of Colorado - Nikkei in the Americas

Manzanar Mosaic

Essays and Oral Histories on America’s First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp

  • by Arthur A. Hansen
University Press of Colorado - Nikkei in the Americas

Relocating Authority

Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration

  • by Mira Shimabukuro
University Press of Colorado - Nikkei in the Americas

Starting from Loomis and Other Stories

  • by Hiroshi Kashiwagi, edited with an introduction by Tim Yamamura
University Press of Colorado - Nikkei in the Americas

Taken from the Paradise Isle

The Hoshida Family Story

  • edited by Heidi Kim
University Press of Colorado - Nikkei in the Americas

The House on Lemon Street

Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream
  • by Mark Rawitsch

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