Processing Cultural Trauma: Intergenerational Effects of the Japanese American Incarceration

Nagata, Donna K.; Kim, Jackie H. J.; Nguyen, Teresa U.

doi:10.1111/josi.12115

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“…Finally, important research remains to be done regarding how the narrative legacies of survivors may play a role in the ways their descendants negotiate their identities. Appropriation and adaptation of firsthand memories becomes an imminent challenge as the number of various World War II survivors wanes (Hunter & Rollins, ; Nagata et al., ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sutured Identities in Jewish Holocaust Survivor Testimonies

Schwartzman

2015

Journal of Social Issues

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During her lifespan as a survivor, Gizella could qualify as a human catalog of Holocaust experiences: Lodz ghetto, Red Army spy, tortured by the Gestapo, inmate at Majdanek death camp, left for dead amid a pile of corpses, then a Displaced Persons camp. Her presentations passionately narrated vivid vignettes that leapt randomly across places and times. Gizella sutured together her pastiche of recollections into an emotionally compelling patchwork.The metaphor of suturing describes an ongoing, often provisional, process of creatively recrafting personal and collective identity after extreme disruption. Suturing operates on several levels. Expressively, suturing describes the narrative path of this essay, juxtaposing distinctive individual testimonies to illustrate the

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As with other trauma survivors, such as Japanese‐American internees (Nagata, Kim, & Nguyen, ), overt Americanization served both to display fidelity and to camouflage difference. Adoption of “American” clothing did contribute to assimilation, but it carried an added advantage of potential concealment.…”

Section: Dialectical Tensions Of Testimonymentioning

confidence: 95%

Sutured Identities in Jewish Holocaust Survivor Testimonies

Schwartzman

2015

Journal of Social Issues

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“…Social attitudes and associated stigma can collude to perpetuate silence when cultural trauma histories bring shame or contradict the idealized self-view of that society. Studies have found that many children of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II had a strong interest in knowing about the internment camps as part of U.S. history but were not positioned in social contexts that supported such discourse at the time (Nagata & Cheng, 2003;Nagata, Kim, & Nguyen, 2015). Similarly, public acknowledgment regarding the U.S. role in enabling the Khmer Rouge's to rise to power is currently lacking: U.S. schools generally do not teach about the U.S. attacks and eventual destabilization of Cambodia in the 1970s leading to genocide (Chandler, 1991).…”

Section: Intergenerational Communication About Trauma In the Context mentioning

confidence: 98%

So You, My Children, Can Have a Better Life: A Cambodian American Perspective on the Phenomenology of Intergenerational Communication about Trauma

Lin

Suyemoto

2016

Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma

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We address this question: How do Cambodian American young adults come to know about their family's experiences of trauma? Using a social constructivist critical ideological approach, we developed a phenomenological model describing intergenerational communication about trauma (IGCT) in Cambodian American families. We found IGCT to be an interactional process in which younger and older generations each played a role. IGCT was influenced by the availability of multiple sources of information and opportunities for learning, interpersonal connectedness between the generations, emotional distress tolerance, and having motivation to empathically learn and share. When these factors were abundant, direct interactive IGCT was more likely. When wanting, the IGCT was more disrupted and incoherent, filled with emotionally charged silence and lead to negative attributions. IGCT was a dynamic process that could change over time to accommodate developmental change. Limitations of the findings, clinical implications, and future directions are discussed. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Reparative actions may not completely heal the intergenerational damage wrought by historical injustice (Nagata, Kim, & Nguyen, ), but they are believed to be important to reconciliation (Barkan, ). Despite their importance to reconciliation, reparations are often unpopular because they imply guilt by association with past wrongdoers.…”

Section: Injustice Emotions and Collective Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%