From Race to Ethnicity
Interpreting Japanese American Experiences in Hawaii
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20008876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Y Okamura (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 272 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | From Race to Ethnicity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.21313/hawaii/9780824839505.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4231032673 |
| ISBN | 9780824839505 |
| Open Library | OL27537948M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
This book discusses both the historical and contemporary experiences of Hawaiʻ's Japanese Americans and interprets these experiences from racial and ethnic perspectives. The transition from race to ethnicity is 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. The book 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. It goes on to analyze how Japanese Americans have maintained their political power into the twenty-first century and considers the recent advocacy and activism of individual yonsei (fourth-generation Japanese Americans) working on behalf of ethnic communities other than their own. The book's analysis 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 book reminds 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 Hawaiʻi
Democracy · Ethnic group · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Race (biology) · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Law · Ethnology · hawaii · Japanese americans
Homeland status and the direction of diaspora politicization
Theorizing race in Hawai‘i
Critical Mass
Drinking Embodied
Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage
Sweetness and exile
From White Supremacy to a Multiracial Mainstream in Hawai'i
Nonwhiteness' in nineteenth-century Hawai'i
Plant-people Intimacies
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |