No-No Boy Essays

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No-No Boy

The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II had a lasting impact on the first two generations of Japanese Americans – the Issei (the first-generation Japanese immigrants) and the Nisei (American-born children of the first-generation...

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No-No Boy

John Okada’s No-No Boy illustrates the racial conflicts between the Japanese-American community and American popular culture as well as differing views on assimilation among Japanese-Americans themselves. Kenji, who suffers from a fatal wound...