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ASAM 71 Final WITH COMPLETESOLUTIONS 100% 2024/2025
Ethnogenesis Answer: creation/birth of a new group identity
Effect of WWII Internment on Japanese American Identity & History Answer: shared trauma of
WW2 internment marks beginning of Japanese identity
functions of religious institutions for Japanese Americans in relation to internment(Yoo) Answer:
Japanese American Buddhist "Protestantization" (Williams, Yoo) Answer: Jodo Shinshu (Shin
Buddhism) arrived with Japanese immigrants late 1800's; wasn't popular w whites looking for orientalist
fix bc there was no focus on meditation; they became the "Buddhist Churches of America"(1944) and
adopted christian forms like organs, pianos, hymns, choirs, ymba
When does Japanese American History begin? Answer: after the internment in WWII
Post-Internment effects/reactions on/by Japanese Americans Answer: model minority, view of civil
religion, resilient silence
model minority Answer: myth that Asians are "naturally, or culturally" inclined towards excelling at
education(especially STEM majors) --> hegemonic belief, outcome is that they are seen as economically
better than other races/minorities
Japanese American View of Civil Religion Answer: Jane Iwamura's writing "Critical Faith...":
"internment was a time of trial, that would come to define its identity and mission"; therefore are
, ambivalent to american civil religion bc of internment; texts, sites and rituals: part of how Japanese
Americans change or alter acr
resilient silence Answer: Japanese American strategy for using silence as a form of resistance; Brett
Esaki; "religious, artistic, and political silences...to resist oppression, recall resistance, and evoke energy
of preserved religion"
Japanese American history as religious according to Daniele Herview-Leger Answer: "Religion as a
Chain of Memory": religion is a symbol and system through which belonging to a particular belief is
maintained, developed, controlled"
the perpetual foreigner Answer: Asian Americans are viewed as "strangers" no matter where they
were born or how long their families have been in the US; related to the "yellow peril" - fear that the
country will be overrun by Asians - during 19th century fear abt labor competition
William Peterson: "Success Story, Japanese-American Style"(1966) Answer: discusses Asian
superiority to other races; credits diligence in work, family, religion, and respect for authority; "own
almost totally unaided effort"
silence of monuments Answer: monuments "communicate Shinto and Buddhist messages abt the
Japanese American experience"
Daniele Herview Leger Answer: fundamental components
1. expressions of belief(ritual, pilgrimage, silence)
2. memory/continuity(pilgrimage, monuments)
3. legitimating, authorized tradition(oral histories, elders, monuments/memorials, "civil religion"
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Answer: french, wrote "The Physiology of Taste"(1825); said foods
reveal cultural norms, backgrounds, transgressions, class status, racial expectations
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