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- Title
CHANGING PATTERNS OF FERTILITY AND SURVIVAL AMONG THE JAPANESE AMERICANS ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
- Authors
Sabagh, George; Thomas, Dorothy S.
- Abstract
Claims of the extraordinary reproductive performance of the Japanese minority have been made so frequently and over such a long period that they may be considered as part of the folklore of the West Coast. A frequency distribution of the number of these claims as reported in newspapers and periodicals would probably indicate that the mode falls in the early 1920's, during the period of agitation for Oriental exclusion. Fairly representative of the statements of this period, is that of U.S. Senator J. M. Inman in the June, 1920, issue of Grizzly Bear' where "statistics usually dry and uninteresting" are cited as "necessary to prove that the Japanese, born to obey, and obsessed with a determination to colonize California, are literally falling over themselves to "beget beget'". These statistics, it is said, demonstrate "the phenomenal fecundity of the Japanese in California which threatens the submersion of the white population by an alien race," and are interpreted to mean that "all Japanese women in California between the ages of 15 and 45 are bearing children at the rate of one every other year," a situation "unprecedented and without parallel among any other race in any country anywhere in the world."
- Subjects
PACIFIC Coast (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States; PREGNANCY; JAPANESE Americans; HUMAN fertility; REPRODUCTION
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1945, Vol 10, Issue 5, p651
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2086065