Cumulative Discrimination and Racialized Experience in the Lives of American–Japanese Individuals Born in the Aftermath of World War II

Abstract

Despite burgeoning research on ‘mixed-blood’ Japanese born to Occupation Forces soldiers and Japanese women following WW2, little is known about their life histories and their determinants. The factors and mechanisms which affected their biographical experience during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood are analyzed. The findings show that the ‘mixed-blood’ Japanese have experienced cumulative discrimination due to social and symbolic boundaries congruent with their race, gender and familial status.