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Island World: A History of Hawai'i and the United States

Island World: A History of Hawai'i and the United States more books like this

by Professor Gary Y Okihiro

Brilliantly mixing geology, folklore, music, cultural commentary, and history, Gary Y. Okihiro overturns the customary narrative in which the United States acts upon and dominates Hawai'i. Instead, "Island World" depicts the islands' press against the continent, endowing America's story with fresh meaning. Okihiro's reconsidered history reveals ...

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Common Ground: Reimagining American History

Common Ground: Reimagining American History more books like this

by Professor Gary Y Okihiro

In Common Ground, Gary Okihiro uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history and people can be understood. He examines a set of binaries - East and West, black and white, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual - that have structured the telling of our nation's history and shaped our ideas of ...

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The Columbia Guide to Asian American History

The Columbia Guide to Asian American History more books like this

by Professor Gary Y Okihiro

Offering a rich and insightful road map of Asian American history as it has evolved over more than 200 years, this book marks the first systematic attempt to take stock of this field of study. It examines, comments, and questions the changing assumptions and contexts underlying the experiences and contributions of an incredibly diverse population ...

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Cane Fires PB: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945

Cane Fires PB: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945 more books like this

by Professor Gary Y Okihiro, Gary Y Ckihiro

Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical "racial paradise," Gary Okihiro presents this history of a systematic anti-Japanese movement in the islands from the time migrant workers were brought to the sugar cane fields until the end of World War II. He demonstrates that the racial discrimination against Japanese Americans that ...

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Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture

Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture more books like this

by Professor Gary Y Okihiro

In a thoughtful and stimulating contribution to the current debate about the meaning to the larger society of multiculturalism, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian Americans in American history and culture. In six provocative and engaging essays he examines the Asian American experience from the perspectives of historical consciousness ...

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Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II

Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II more books like this

by Professor Gary Y Okihiro, Leslie A Ito

During World War II over 5,500 young Japanese Americans left the concentration camps to which they had been confined with their families in order to attend college. Storied Lives describes -- often in their own words -- how nisei students found schools to attend outside the West Coast exclusion zone and the efforts of white Americans to help them. ...

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Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones

Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones more books like this

by Professor Gary Y Okihiro

Plucked from tropical America, the pineapple was brought to European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the tropics, where it came to dominate U.S. and world markets. "Pineapple Culture" is a dazzling history of the world's tropical and temperate zones told through the pineapple's illustrative career. Following Gary Y. Okihiro's ...

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Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II

Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II more books like this

by Professor Gary Y Okihiro, Joan Myers (Photographer)

Gathers memories of the detention camps.

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Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945

Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945 more books like this

by Professor Gary Y Okihiro

Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical "racial paradise," Gary Okihiro presents this history of a systematic anti-Japanese movement in the islands from the time migrant workers were brought to the sugar cane fields until the end of World War II. He demonstrates that the racial discrimination against Japanese Americans that ...

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Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas: An Illustrated History of the Nikkei

Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas: An Illustrated History of the Nikkei more books like this

by Akemi Kikumura-Yano (Editor), Daniel K Inouye (Foreword by), Professor Gary Y Okihiro (Introduction by)

The Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive guide to the history of Japanese immigrants in the western hemisphere. It is the story of the Nikkei (people of Japanese descent and their descendants) from early immigration to the present, as they settled in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and the ...

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In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean and Afro-American History more books like this

by Professor Gary Y Okihiro

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