Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2014 Pacific hiC ldhoods in the Rafu: Multiple Transnational Modernisms and the Los Angeles Nisei, 1918-1942 Bruce Makoto Arnold Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College,
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[email protected]. PACIFIC CHILDHOODS IN THE RAFU: MULTIPLE TRANSNATIONAL MODERNISMS AND THE LOS ANGELES NISEI, 1918-1942 A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of History by Bruce Makoto Arnold B.A., University of Arizona, 2005 M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006 M.A., Sam Houston State University, 2007 August 2014 © Copyright 2014 Bruce Makoto Arnold All rights reserved ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Firstly, I’d like to thank my parents who, above all, instilled in me a desire to learn and gain as much knowledge as I can through education. Although it took a long time to hit my stride as a scholar, it was never because I doubted their emphasis on education or their insights into the world.