Baseball's kakehashi: a bridge of understanding and the Nikkei experience

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In 1924, in reaction to a decidedly anti-Asian United States federal immigration mandate, first-generation Japanese American Issei leaders adopted a concept that they called kakehashi, a ‘bridge of understanding’. Kakehashi called for parents to support efforts for international exchanges from which their Nisei children could visit Japan to better appreciate their culture and heritage and share it with the white mainstream. The most effective of these exchanges, however, involved the baseball competition between teams from Japan and their Nikkei counterparts.View full textDownload full textKeywordsnationalism, globalisation, transnationalism, race, cultureRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2011.627202