Ethnic Revival among Fourth-Generation Japanese Americans
Ethnic Revival among Fourth-Generation Japanese Americans
This chapter examines how fourth-generation yonsei youth are attempting to recover their lost ethnic heritage and reconnect with their ancestral homeland, despite their complete assimilation and Americanization. Indeed, for them, assimilation has not so much obliterated their cultural heritage, as it has instigated an ethnic revival under conditions of racialized multiculturalism. As a result, the yonsei study Japanese, major in Asian studies, and forge transnational ties. However, even as this return to ethnic roots represents more than a symbolic ethnicity, it is also a result of the pressures of multicultural racialization and indicates that ethnicity remains involuntary for racialized minorities, even after four generations.
Keywords: ethnic revival, ethnic heritage, racialization, multiculturalism, assimilation, symbolic ethnicity
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