"Stubborn Twig" by Lauren Kessler

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"This paper is an examination of Lauren Kessler's Stubborn Twig, a chronicle of three generations of a Japanese American family that provides fascinating personal examples of the experience that most Japanese immigrants underwent in coming to America. Masuo Yasui arrived in the United States to help build the railroads in the American West. He stayed to found a large family and a successful business enterprise. His nine children were all American citizens by virtue of their birthplace, but Masuo could not legally take the oath of citizenship until long after he had made enormous sacrifices for his adopted country. World War II was a severe test of the commitment of Masuo's family to the privilege and challenge of being American. Masuo's grandchildren spent their childhoods focused on becoming as completely Americanized as their distinctively Asian..."

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