Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On June 21, 2024, Tritia Toyota joined in conversation with Valerie Matsumoto around Toyota’s new book “Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020,” which explores the lives of Japanese women migrating to the US and the specific challenges and trials they faced as both women and recent immigrants.
About the author:
Tritia Toyota is Adjunct Associate Professor in Anthropology and a Research Scholar at the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of “Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging.” She also wrote and produced the documentary “Asian America.”
About the book:
“Intimate Strangers” explores the stories of resilient shin Issei women who migrated to places like Southern California seeking economic opportunities unavailable to them in their homeland to fashion new and meaningful lives. Their stories highlight the precarity, inequality, and continuing marginality that they faced in Japan, where they were restricted by gendered social structures, and in the US, where their experiences were compounded by issues such as citizenship and tension around intergroup negotiations over race, identity, and belonging.
“Intimate Strangers” is available for purchase at the JANM Store:
janmstore.com/products/intimate-strangers
This program was presented in partnership with Asian American Studies Center–University of California Los Angeles as part of the JANM Book Club series that highlight new publications by Japanese Americans or related to Japanese American history and culture.
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On June 21, 2024, Tritia Toyota joined in conversation with Valerie Matsumoto around Toyota’s new book “Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020,” which explores the lives of Japanese women migrating to the US and the specific challenges and trials they faced as both women and recent immigrants.
About the author:
Tritia Toyota is Adjunct Associate Professor in Anthropology and a Research Scholar at the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of “Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging.” She also wrote and produced the documentary “Asian America.”
About the book:
“Intimate Strangers” explores the stories of resilient shin Issei women who migrated to places like Southern California seeking economic opportunities unavailable to them in their homeland to fashion new and meaningful lives. Their stories highlight the precarity, inequality, and continuing marginality that they faced in Japan, where they were restricted by gendered social structures, and in the US, where their experiences were compounded by issues such as citizenship and tension around intergroup negotiations over race, identity, and belonging.
“Intimate Strangers” is available for purchase at the JANM Store:
janmstore.com/products/intimate-strangers
This program was presented in partnership with Asian American Studies Center–University of California Los Angeles as part of the JANM Book Club series that highlight new publications by Japanese Americans or related to Japanese American history and culture.
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Programs like this are made possible by the generous support of JANM’s members and donors. Become a member (janm.org/membership) or consider making a tax-deductible gift so that we can continue to present more programs and exhibitions like these: janm.org/donatenow. Your support makes a difference. Thank you!
Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
janm.org
Stay connected with us!
Follow JANM on Instagram: instagram.com/jamuseum
Follow JANM on Twitter: twitter.com/jamuseum
Follow JANM on Facebook: facebook.com/jamuseum
Follow JANM on TikTok: tiktok.com/@jamuseum
