In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire

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Dedication
In Search of Our Frontier
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Copyright
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Transpacific Japanese Migration, White American Racism, and Japan’s Adaptive Settler Colonialism
PART ONE. IMAGINING A JAPANESE PACIFIC, 1884–1907
	1. Immigrant Frontiersmen in America and the Origins of Japanese Settler Colonialism
	2. Vanguard of an Expansive Japan: Knowledge Producers, Frontier Trotters, and Settlement Builders from across the Pacific
PART TWO. CHAMPIONING OVERSEAS JAPANESE DEVELOPMENT, 1908–1928
	3. Transpacific Migrants and the Blurring Boundaries of State and Private Settler Colonialism
	4. US Immigration Exclusion, Japanese America, and Transmigrants on Japan’s Brazilian Frontiers
PART THREE. SPEARHEADING JAPAN’S IMPERIAL SETTLERCOLONIALISM, 1924–1945
	5. Japanese California and Its Colonial Diaspora: Translocal Manchuria Connections
	6. Japanese Hawai‘i and Its Tropical Nexus: Translocal Remigration to Colonial Taiwan and the Nan’yō
PART FOUR. HISTORY AND FUTURITY IN JAPAN’S IMPERIAL SETTLERCOLONIALISM, 1932–1945
	7. Japanese Pioneers in America and the Making of Expansionist Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan
	8. The Call of Blood: Japanese American Citizens and the Education of the Empire’s Future “Frontier Fighters”
Epilogue: The Afterlife of Japanese Settler Colonialism
Glossary of Japanese Names: Remigrants from the Continental United States and Hawai‘i
Notes
Index