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Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i

By: Jonathan Y. Okamura

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Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i

By: Jonathan Y. Okamura

Challenging the dominant view of Hawai’i as a “melting pot paradise”—a place of ethnic tolerance and equality—Jonathan Okamura examines how ethnic inequality is structured and maintained in island society. He finds that ethnicity, not race or class, signifies difference for Hawaii’s people and therefore structures their social relations. In Hawai’i, residents attribute greater social significance to the presumed cultural differences between ethnicities than to more obvious physical differences, such as skin color. According to Okamura, ethnicity regulates disparities in access to resources, rewards, and privileges among ethnic groups, as he demonstrates in his analysis of socioeconomic and educational inequalities in the state. He shows that socially and economically dominant ethnic groups—Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Whites—have stigmatized and subjugated the islands’ other ethnic groups—especially Native Hawaiians, Filipino Americans, and Samoans. He demonstrates how ethnic stereotypes have been deployed against ethnic minorities and how these groups have contested their subordinate political and economic status by articulating new identities for themselves.

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Temple University Press

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1592137563

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Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i

By: Jonathan Y. Okamura

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Beyond Ethnicity

New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i

By: Camilla Fojas,Rudy P. Guevarra,Nitasha Tamar Sharma

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Beyond Ethnicity

New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i

By: Camilla Fojas,Rudy P. Guevarra,Nitasha Tamar Sharma

Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai‘i is understood. Instead, ethnic difference is celebrated as a sign of multicultural globalism that designates Hawai‘i as the crossroads of the Pacific. Racial inequality is disruptive to the tourist image of the islands. It ruptures the image of tolerance, diversity, and happiness upon which tourism, business, and so many other vested transnational interests in the islands are based. The contributors of this interdisciplinary volume reconsider Hawai‘i as a model of ethnic and multiracial harmony through the lens of race in their analysis of historical events, group relations and individual experiences, and humor, among other focal points. Beyond Ethnicity examines the dynamics between race, ethnicity, and indigeneity to challenge the primacy of ethnicity and cultural practices for examining difference in Hawai‘i while recognizing the significant role of settler colonialism. This original and thought-provoking volume reveals what a racial analysis illuminates about the current political configuration of the islands and, in doing so, challenges how we conceptualize race on the continent. Recognizing the ways that Native Hawaiians or Kānaka Maoli are impacted by shifting, violent, and hierarchical colonial structures that include racial inequalities, the editors and contributors explore questions of personhood and citizenship through language, land, labor, and embodiment. By admitting to these tensions and ambivalences, the editors set the pace and tempo of powerfully argued essays that engage with the various ways that Kānaka Maoli and the influx of differentially racialized settlers continue to shift the social, political, and cultural terrains of the Hawaiian Islands over time.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824873521

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Imagining the Filipino American Diaspora

Transnational Relations, Identities, and Communities

By: Jonathan Y. Okamura

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Imagining the Filipino American Diaspora

Transnational Relations, Identities, and Communities

By: Jonathan Y. Okamura

First published in 1998. The Philippines play a major role in expanding the international Filipino community through its promotion of international labor migration-Filipinos can currently be found in over 130 countries throughout the world. As the first major work to conceive of Filipino immigration as a diaspora, this study analyses the diasporic nature of Filipino relations, identities, and communities and shows how these transnational phenomena are socially constructed by the everyday actions and activities of Filipino Americans. Instead of focusing on an ethnic minority and its relation to its host society, a diasporic perspective places emphasis on the transnational relations created and maintained among that minority, its homeland, and other diasporic communities. Transnational ties are evident in the movement of people, money, consumer goods, information, and ideas. Diaspora represents a new and fluid conceptual image quite apart from the usual coordinates based on physical location, territory, and distance. Transnational relations and practices will continue to be an increasingly important dimension of the Filipino American community because of the ongoing family-based immigration from the Philippines, further technological advances in communication and transportation, the expansion of transnational capital, and continuing racism and discrimination, all of which have made it necessary for Filipinos in the United States, the Philippines, and throughout the world to create and maintain diasporic lives and culture.

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Routledge

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1136530711

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From Race to Ethnicity

Interpreting Japanese American Experiences in Hawai‘i

By: Jonathan Y. Okamura

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From Race to Ethnicity

Interpreting Japanese American Experiences in Hawai‘i

By: Jonathan Y. Okamura

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.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824840186

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9780824840181

Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i

Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case

By: Jonathan Y Okamura

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Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case

By: Jonathan Y Okamura

On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikîkî. Fukunaga, a nineteen-year-old nisei, or second-generation Japanese American, confessed to the crime. Within three weeks, authorities had convicted him and sentenced him to hang, despite questions about Fukunaga's sanity and a deeply flawed defense by his court-appointed attorneys. Jonathan Y. Okamura argues that officials "raced" Fukunaga to death—first viewing the accused only as Japanese despite the law supposedly being colorblind, and then hurrying to satisfy the Haole (white) community's demand for revenge. Okamura sets the case against an analysis of the racial hierarchy that undergirded Hawai‘ian society, which was dominated by Haoles who saw themselves most threatened by the islands' sizable Japanese American community. The Fukunaga case and others like it in the 1920s reinforced Haole supremacy and maintained the racial boundary that separated Haoles from non-Haoles, particularly through racial injustice. As Okamura challenges the representation of Hawai i as a racial paradise, he reveals the ways Haoles usurped the criminal justice system and reevaluates the tense history of anti-Japanese racism in Hawai i.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252051440

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Asian Settler Colonialism

From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai?i

By: Candace Fujikane,Jonathan Y. Okamura

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Asian Settler Colonialism

From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai?i

By: Candace Fujikane,Jonathan Y. Okamura

This title takes a look at indigenous views of Asian settlement in Hawaii over the past century. It is a valuable resource not only for Asian Americans in Hawaii but for all scholars and activists grappling with issues of social justice in other 'settler' societies.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824830156

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From Race to Ethnicity

Interpreting Japanese American Experiences in Hawai‘i

By: Jonathan Y. Okamura

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Interpreting Japanese American Experiences in Hawai‘i

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University of Hawaii Press

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Imagining the Filipino American Diaspora

Transnational Relations, Identities, and Communities

By: Jonathan Y. Okamura

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Transnational Relations, Identities, and Communities

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Atlas of Transnasal Esophagoscopy

By: Gregory N. Postma,Peter C. Belafsky,Jonathan E. Aviv

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Atlas of Transnasal Esophagoscopy

By: Gregory N. Postma,Peter C. Belafsky,Jonathan E. Aviv

Written by leaders in the emerging area of transnasal esophagoscopy (TNE), this full-color atlas is the first comprehensive how-to reference on this technology. The authors define the indications for the procedure, provide step-by-step instructions on technique, and describe the full range of anatomy and pathology seen during TNE examinations. Major sections focus on disease-specific applications of TNE, including esophagitis, webs and rings, hiatal hernia, Barrett's metaplasia, neoplasia, and miscellaneous esophageal problems such as foreign bodies, diverticula, caustic injuries, and varices. More than 100 full-color endoscopic images depict both normal esophageal anatomy and abnormalities as seen through the endoscope.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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0781751802

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Asian Settler Colonialism

From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai?i

By: Candace Fujikane,Jonathan Y. Okamura

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From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai?i

By: Candace Fujikane,Jonathan Y. Okamura

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Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i

Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case

By: Jonathan Y Okamura

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Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case

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University of Illinois Press

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The Metabolic Ghetto

An Evolutionary Perspective on Nutrition, Power Relations and Chronic Disease

By: Jonathan C. K. Wells

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The Metabolic Ghetto

An Evolutionary Perspective on Nutrition, Power Relations and Chronic Disease

By: Jonathan C. K. Wells

A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of nutrition in generating hierarchical societies and cultivating a global epidemic of chronic diseases.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107009472

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Book's by Jonathan Y Okamura

Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i

Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i

Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i

Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i

Beyond Ethnicity

Beyond Ethnicity

Imagining the Filipino American Diaspora

Imagining the Filipino American Diaspora

From Race to Ethnicity

From Race to Ethnicity

Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i

Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i

Asian Settler Colonialism

Asian Settler Colonialism

From Race to Ethnicity

From Race to Ethnicity

Imagining the Filipino American Diaspora

Imagining the Filipino American Diaspora

Atlas of Transnasal Esophagoscopy

Atlas of Transnasal Esophagoscopy

Asian Settler Colonialism

Asian Settler Colonialism

Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i

Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i

The Metabolic Ghetto

The Metabolic Ghetto

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