Okinawan Diaspora / / ed. by Ronald Y. Nakasone.
The first Okinawan immigrants arrived in Honolulu in January 1900 to work as contract laborers on Hawai'i's sugar plantations. Over time Okinawans would continue migrating east to the continental U.S., Canada, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Cuba, Paraguay, New Caledonia, and the...
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2002 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Transliteration and Conventions
- Preface
- Part I. Introduction
- Chapter 1. "An Impossible Possibility"
- Chapter 2. Theorizing on the Okinawan Diaspora
- Chapter 3. Okinawa in the Matrix of Pacific Ocean Culture
- Part II Journeys
- Chapter 4. The "Japanese" of Micronesia: Okinawans in the Nan'yō Islands
- Chapter 5. "The Other Japanese": Okinawan Immigrants to the Philippines, 1903 -1941
- Chapter 6. Japanese Latin American Internment from an Okinawan Perspective
- Chapter 7. Colonialism and Nationalism: The View from Okinawa
- Chapter 8. Eissa: Identities and Dances of Okinawan Diasporic Experiences
- Chapter 9. Hawai'i Uchinanchu and Okinawa: Uchinanchu Spirit and the Formation of a Transnational Identity
- Chapter 10. Agari-umaai: An Okinawan Pilgrimage
- Appendix
- Glossary
- References
- List of Contributors
- Index