Podcasts Culture Meant To Be Eaten Takeyuki Tsuda on Japanese-American immigrants and defending "Americanness"

Takeyuki Tsuda on Japanese-American immigrants and defending "Americanness"

Published: May 5, 2019, 7 p.m.

Takeyuki Tsuda (Gaku) has been researching the ethnic minority status of Japanese Americans across generations, and the extent to which they remain connected to their ethnic heritage. How do Japanese-Americans\u2019 differ across countries, let alone generations? Having been in America as long as (if not longer than) other immigrants, why are Asian-Americans still constantly defending their \u2018Americanness\u2019? We discuss the ways in which generations of Japanese-Americans respond to these pressures.