Join Tritia Toyota in conversation with Valerie Matsumoto around Toyota’s new book Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020, which explores the lives of Japanese women migrating to the US and the specific challenges and trials they faced as both women and recent immigrants.
About the book:
Intimate Strangers explores the stories of resilient shin Issei women who migrated to places like Southern California seeking economic opportunities unavailable to them in their homeland to fashion new and meaningful lives. Their stories highlight the precarity, inequality, and continuing marginality that they faced in Japan, where they were restricted by gendered social structures, and in the US, where their experiences were compounded by issues such as citizenship and tension around intergroup negotiations over race, identity, and belonging.
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About the author:
Tritia Toyota
Tritia Toyota is Adjunct Associate Professor in Anthropology and a Research Scholar at the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging. She also wrote and produced the documentary Asian America.