"Japanese American"の成立 (自己知覚<特集>)

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The present study examined the processes in which those American citizens of Japanese ancestry who had been interned in the US concentration camps during W.W. II due to their ethnicity came to be socially indentified as "Japanese Americans". 283 front-page-lead-articles, 81 editorials, and 108 letters to the editor of the "Granada Pioneer", an English newspaper published in the Amache WR A camp in Colorado, were content-analyzed with regard to (1) the use of such ethnic social catogories as 'Americans' 'Japanese', 'Japanese Americans', or 'American Japanese'; (2) the users of those categories; (3) the themes of articles printed.<BR>The following results were obtained: (1) "Japanese American" was the most frequently used among those four social categories, and it appeared more often in the articles published during the latter half of the internment period than those during the first half of it; (2) The use of "Japanese American" was initiated by the Federal government, and later the people of Japanese ancestry picked it up as their social identity; and (3) The people of Japanese ancestry often identified themselves as "Japanese Americans" in referring to their relationships with the Federal government and with the American public (mainly the Californians).
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