2011

THE JAPANESE JOURNAL
OF AMERICAN STUDIES

Number Twenty-two (2011)

CONTENTS


	Editor's Introduction	1

Kevin Gaines	Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life and the “Long Civil Rights Movement”	7
Natsuki Aruga	Is a Japanese Standpoint Useful for Studying about America?: Child Labor during World War II Revealed in Comparative Perspective	25

Mikayo Sakuma	“Povertiresque”: The Representation of Irish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America	47
Kotaro Nakano	How the Other Half Was Made: Perceptions of Poverty in Progressive Era Chicago	63
Tetsuo Uenishi	Are the Rich Different?: Creating a Culture of Wealth in The Great Gatsby	89
Kazuhiko Goto	Reading William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying as a Poverty Narrative	109
Ichiro Kuraishi	Poverty, Education, and National Policy in the “Affl uent Society”: A Comparison of the United States and Japan in the 1960s	125
Kazuyo Tsuchiya	“Jobs or Income Now!”: Work, Welfare, and Citizenship in Johnnie Tillmon’s Struggles for Welfare Rights	151
Azusa Ono	The Fight for Indian Employment Preference in the Bureau of Indian Affairs: Red Power Activism in Denver, Colorado, and Morton v. Mancari	171
Fuminori Minamikawa	The Japanese American “Success Story” and the Intersection of Ethnicity, Race, and Class in the Post?Civil Rights Era	193
Satomi Yamamoto	Fair Price for Whom?: A Critique of Fairness and Justice in the Albany Park Workers’ Rights Campaign	213

	English-Language Works by JAAS Members 2009	231