The Resource From race to ethnicity : interpreting Japanese American experiences in Hawaiʻi, Jonathan Y. Okamura
From race to ethnicity : interpreting Japanese American experiences in Hawaiʻi, Jonathan Y. Okamura
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The item From race to ethnicity : interpreting Japanese American experiences in Hawaiʻi, Jonathan Y. Okamura represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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- Summary
- This is the first book in more than thirty years to discuss critically both the historical and contemporary experiences of Hawaii's Japanese Americans. Given that race was the foremost organizing principle of social relations in Hawaii and was followed by ethnicity beginning in the 1970s, the book interprets these experiences from racial and ethnic perspectives. The transition from race to ethnicity is cogently demonstrated in the transformation of Japanese Americans from a highly racialized minority of immigrant laborers to one of the most politically and socioeconomically powerful ethnic groups in the islands. To illuminate this process, the author has produced a racial history of Japanese Americans from their early struggles against oppressive working and living conditions on the sugar plantations to labor organizing and the rise to power of the Democratic Party following World War II. He goes on to analyze how Japanese Americans have maintained their political power into the twenty-first century and discusses the recent advocacy and activism of individual yonsei (fourth-generation Japanese Americans) working on behalf of ethnic communities other than their own. From Race to Ethnicity resonates with scholars currently debating the relative analytical significance of race and ethnicity. Its novel analysis convincingly elucidates the differential functioning of race and ethnicity over time insofar as race worked against Japanese Americans and other non-Haoles (Whites) by restricting them from full and equal participation in society, but by the 1970s ethnicity would work fully in their favor as they gained greater political and economic power. The author reminds readers, however, that ethnicity has continued to work against Native Hawaiians, Filipino Americans, and other minorities--although not to the same extent as race previously--and thus is responsible for maintaining ethnic inequality in Hawaii
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- Struggle and resistance: 1885-1945
- Myles Yutaka Fukunaga and the anti-Japanese movement
- Advocacy and advancement: 1946-1970
- Power and domination: 1971-1986
- Power and ethnicity: post-1986
- Activism and advocacy: Yonsei leaders
- Conclusion: beyond Japanese American experiences in Hawaiʻi
- Isbn
- 9780824840181
- Label
- From race to ethnicity : interpreting Japanese American experiences in Hawaiʻi
- Title
- From race to ethnicity
- Title remainder
- interpreting Japanese American experiences in Hawaiʻi
- Statement of responsibility
- Jonathan Y. Okamura
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This is the first book in more than thirty years to discuss critically both the historical and contemporary experiences of Hawaii's Japanese Americans. Given that race was the foremost organizing principle of social relations in Hawaii and was followed by ethnicity beginning in the 1970s, the book interprets these experiences from racial and ethnic perspectives. The transition from race to ethnicity is cogently demonstrated in the transformation of Japanese Americans from a highly racialized minority of immigrant laborers to one of the most politically and socioeconomically powerful ethnic groups in the islands. To illuminate this process, the author has produced a racial history of Japanese Americans from their early struggles against oppressive working and living conditions on the sugar plantations to labor organizing and the rise to power of the Democratic Party following World War II. He goes on to analyze how Japanese Americans have maintained their political power into the twenty-first century and discusses the recent advocacy and activism of individual yonsei (fourth-generation Japanese Americans) working on behalf of ethnic communities other than their own. From Race to Ethnicity resonates with scholars currently debating the relative analytical significance of race and ethnicity. Its novel analysis convincingly elucidates the differential functioning of race and ethnicity over time insofar as race worked against Japanese Americans and other non-Haoles (Whites) by restricting them from full and equal participation in society, but by the 1970s ethnicity would work fully in their favor as they gained greater political and economic power. The author reminds readers, however, that ethnicity has continued to work against Native Hawaiians, Filipino Americans, and other minorities--although not to the same extent as race previously--and thus is responsible for maintaining ethnic inequality in Hawaii
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Okamura, Jonathan Y
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- In English
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Race and ethnicity in Hawaiʻi
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Japanese Americans
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Japanese Americans
- Hawaii
- Japaner
- Hawaii
- Label
- From race to ethnicity : interpreting Japanese American experiences in Hawaiʻi, Jonathan Y. Okamura
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Struggle and resistance: 1885-1945 -- Myles Yutaka Fukunaga and the anti-Japanese movement -- Advocacy and advancement: 1946-1970 -- Power and domination: 1971-1986 -- Power and ethnicity: post-1986 -- Activism and advocacy: Yonsei leaders -- Conclusion: beyond Japanese American experiences in Hawaiʻi
- Control code
- ocn884538360
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824840181
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.21313/9780824840181
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1366cvt
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884538360
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- From race to ethnicity : interpreting Japanese American experiences in Hawaiʻi, Jonathan Y. Okamura
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Struggle and resistance: 1885-1945 -- Myles Yutaka Fukunaga and the anti-Japanese movement -- Advocacy and advancement: 1946-1970 -- Power and domination: 1971-1986 -- Power and ethnicity: post-1986 -- Activism and advocacy: Yonsei leaders -- Conclusion: beyond Japanese American experiences in Hawaiʻi
- Control code
- ocn884538360
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824840181
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.21313/9780824840181
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1366cvt
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884538360
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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