Japanese American Ethnicity Peter Cartwright Working with Young Offenders

Working with Young Offenders

Jeffrey Williams

However disturbing and unsettling

"Dad only drives to the grocery store"

writings on the walls of Angel Island

Japanese American Ethnicity Peter Cartwright Working with Young OffendersTraces the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese Americans As one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States, most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated and well integrated in mainstream American society. However, they continue to be racialized as culturally "Japanese" foreigners simply because of their Asian appearance in a multicultural America where racial minorities are expected to remain ethnically distinct.