Sonia Gomez New Book: Picture Bride, War Bride
Sonia Gomez has a new book! Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America (New York University Press) examines the role marriage played in the lives of Japanese women during periods of racial exclusion in the United States.
In the words of one reviewer, Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America “offers a pathbreaking counter-narrative to standard accounts of Asian American history that have placed single male migrants at the center. Gomez makes two important interventions in the field: first, by demonstrating how gender, marital status, and motherhood profoundly shaped Japanese migration to the US from the very beginning; second, by showing how interracial intimacies were part of the Japanese American experience from the earliest years. Paying homage to her own family story, Gomez deftly weaves together these two strands of this counter-narrative."
Sonia traveled to Japan to share her work with faculty and students at Chuo University and Teikyo University in Tokyo, as well as Doshisha University in Kyoto. She’s given book talks at local venues as well, including Saratoga Library.
