This panel is intended to discuss racial, ethnic, cultural and national identity of immigrants, who particularly maintained a strong tie to their motherland (roughly between 1900s and 1930s). Reflecting the theme of the meeting, “Entangled Histories: Connections, Crossings, and Constraints in U.S. History,” it aims to show the immigrants’ complex maneuver of identity between an acceptable—“Americanized”—immigrant in the US and a loyal citizen of their motherland (loyal practitioner of their mother culture). My paper will examine the ways in which Japanese immigrants in Chicago successfully constructed their community between 1910s and 1920s maintaining a strong tie to the Empire of Japan. I would like to have scholars, who explore similar themes in their papers.

Please send your brief abstract to me (mhoshino@indiana.edu) as soon as possible to accommodate the final preparation for the panel with the OAH's official deadline on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012.

Please note that your proposal must include the following information to accommodate OAH's requirement in addition to the description of the panel itself, on which we will work together to meet the deadline:
1. a complete mailing address, e-mail, phone number, and affiliation for each participant
2. an abstract of no more than 500 words for the session as a whole
3. a prospectus of no more than 250 words for each presentation
4. a vita of no more than 500 words for each participant.
* For mor information, please follow the link below: http://annualmeeting.oah.org/call_for_proposals/2013_sanfrancisco.html

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Sincerely,
Mayumi Hoshino
Doctoral Candidate
Indiana University Bloomington
Department of History
Email: mhoshino@indiana.edu