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Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii, 1885–1941
Author | : Barbara F. Kawakami |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1995-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780824817305 |
Between 1886 and 1924 thousands of Japanese journeyed to Hawaii to work the sugarcane plantations. First the men came, followed by brides, known only from their pictures, for marriages arranged by brokers. This book tells the story of two generations of plantation workers as revealed by the clothing they brought with them and the adaptations they made to it to accommodate the harsh conditions of plantation labor. Barbara Kawakami has created a vivid picture highlighted by little-known facts gleaned from extensive interviews, from study of preserved pieces of clothing and how they were constructed, and from the literature. She shows that as the cloth preferred by the immigrants shifted from kasuri (tie-dyed fabric from Japan) to palaka (heavy cotton cloth woven in a white plaid pattern on a dark blue background) so too their outlooks shifted from those of foreigners to those of Japanese Americans. Chapters on wedding and funeral attire present a cultural history of the life events at which they were worn, and the examination of work, casual, and children's clothing shows us the social fabric of the issei (first-generation Japanese). Changes that occurred in nisei (second-generation) tradition and clothing are also addressed. The book is illustrated with rare photographs of the period from family collections.
A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaiʻi, 1885-1924
Author | : Franklin Odo |
Publisher | : Hawai'i Immigrant Heritage Preservation Center Department of a Ro |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Hawaii Under the Rising Sun
Author | : John J. Stephan |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2001-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824825508 |
“This lively, provocative study challenges the widely held belief that the Japanese did not intend to invade the Hawaiian Islands.” —Choice “A disquieting book, which shatters several historical illusions that have almost come to be accepted as facts. It will remind historians how complex and ambiguous history really is.” —American Historical Review
Jan Ken Po
Author | : Dennis M. Ogawa |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1982-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780824803988 |
"Jan Ken Po, Ai Kono Sho" "Junk An'a Po, I Canna Show" These words to a simple child's game brought from Japan and made local, the property of all of Hawaii's people, symbolize the cultural transformation experienced by Hawaii's Japanese. It is the story of this experience that Dennis Ogawa tells so well here.
Issei
Author | : Yukiko Kimura |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Issei: Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii is a scholarly and comprehensive history of the first generation of the Japanese in Hawaii. Pioneering sociologist, Yukiko Kimura, wrote about Japanese and Okinawan Americans in Hawai'i during and after World War II. Kimura documents her commentary with extensive footnotes and references as well as oral histories from interviews she conducted and from published interviews collected by others in the past. Raising issues of assimilation versus ethnic nationalism that immigrants confront, revealing much about both the country of origin and the adopted country, Kimura explores all aspects of the adjustments that the Issei had to face.
The Japanese in Hawaii
Author | : Mitsugu Matsuda |
Publisher | : University Press of Hawaii |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
From Race to Ethnicity
Author | : Jonathan Y. Okamura |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2014-07-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0824840186 |
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 Hawai‘i 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 Hawai‘i.
Hawaii End of the Rainbow
Author | : Kazuo Miyamoto |
Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 765 |
Release | : 2011-12-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1462902138 |
This is the story of the Japanese who immigrated to Hawaii around the turn of the present century, worked as forced laborers on the sugar plantations, and afterwards remained in Hawaii to work as free men and to raise families. It is the story also of their children, born and raised in Hawaii, and who, during World War II, won fame and glory for themselves and their country on the bloody battlefields of Italy and southern Europe. But more than all of this, it is the story of the fate of the original immigrants during World War II. Rounded up by a panic-stricken American Government after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, these people were sent to the mainland to spend the war years being confined in one refugee camp after another, all while their sons were winning fame as American combat troops. And finally, it is the story of these elderly people who, at the end of the war, became free men once again and were allowed to return to their beloved Hawaii to live out their lives in peace.