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Outstanding Book in History and Social Science Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1992Okihiro's account is an important corrective to our understanding of the Japanese American Experience in World War II. --The Hawaiian Journal of HistoryChallenging 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 occurred on the West Coast during the second World War closely paralleled the less familiar oppression of Hawaii's Japanese, which evolved from the production needs of the sugar planters to the military's concern over the menace of alien domination. Okihiro convincingly argues that those concerns motivated the consolidation of the plantation owners, the Territorial government, and the U.S. military-Hawaii's elite-into a single force that propelled the anti-Japanese movement, while the military devised secret plans for martial law and the removal and detention of Japanese Americans in Hawaii two decades before World War II. ExcerptRead an excerpt from Chapter 1 (pdf).ReviewsScholars of American race relations will want to read this book. So will anyone interested in Hawaii's history or in the experiences of Japanese or Asian Americans. It will go far in putting to rest any residual notion that the WWII experiences of the Japanese Americans represented 'aberration' or 'hysterical' reaction to wartime exigencies. --Franklin S. Odo, University of Hawaii at Manoa A well-researched and well-written treatment of the subject. --Library JournalContentsIllustrations Preface Part I: Years of Migrant Labor, 1986-1909 1. So Much Charity, So Little Democracy 2. Hole Hole Bushi 3. With the Force of Wildfire Part II: Years of Dependency, 1910-1940 4. Cane Fires 5. In the National Defense 6. Race War 7. Extinguishing the Dawn 8. Dark Designs Part III: World War II, 1941-1945 9. Into the Cold Night Rain 10. Bivouac Song 11. In Morning Sunlight Notes IndexAbout the Author(s)Gary Y. Okihiro is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University.
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Most Japanese in Hawaii, unlike those on the West Coast, were never interned during WW II. This contrast is allegedly due to Hawaii's reputation as a racial paradise, but Okihiro (Cornell University) vigorously challenges that idea. Focusing on the capitalist cultivation of sugar cane, he sees an evolving anti-Japanese movement in the period from 1865 to 1945. Hawaii's sugar plantations required migrant labor, and a white oligarchy cooperating with a territorial government employed various mechanisms and planter paternalism to subjugate the Japanese immigrants. The appearance of a native-born second generation was more problematic; they were citizens, unlike their parents, and could vote. More subtle measures, such as denigration of "Japanism" and an emphasis on assimilation and Americanization, became necessary for domination and control. This concern captured the attention of the US military, which began to study methods to contain the "Japanese menace" in the 1920s. Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor opened the way to imposition of martial law, arrests, detention, and cultural intimidation from 1941 to 1945, a logical culmination to the long legacy of anti-Japanese sentiment. Resourcefully using military intelligence records, Okihiro makes a sophisticated and persuasive case that Hawaii's race relations have similarities to those of the US mainland; his work marks a new direction in Asian American history. Suitable for undergraduates and graduate students. -F. Ng, California State University, Fresno
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Much has been written about persecution of Japanese Americans on the U.S. West Coast, and little about Hawaii, where they were imported as farm workers. Discord over economic and social matters increased as the Japanese demanded fair treatment from the exploitive plantation owners, and the emergence of Japan as a world power complicated the issue. Hawaii's Japanese experienced selective relocations during World War II, but these hardships and the history of discrimination were just as important as that on the mainland. Though the influence of the California situation on the U.S. government's perceptions of Hawaii could have been better explored, Cane Fires remains a well-researched and well-written treatment of the subject. Recommended for specialists.-- Kenneth W. Berger, Duke Univ. Lib., Durham, N.C. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
目录
Preface | p. ix |
Part I Years of Migrant Labor, 1865-1909 | p. 1 |
Chapter 1 So Much Charity, So Little Democracy | p. 3 |
Chapter 2 Hole Hole Bushi | p. 19 |
Chapter 3 With the Force of Wildfire | p. 41 |
Part II Years of Dependency, 1910-1940 | p. 63 |
Chapter 4 Cane Fires | p. 65 |
Chapter 5 In the National Defense | p. 82 |
Chapter 6 Race War | p. 102 |
Chapter 7 Extinguishing the Dawn | p. 129 |
Chapter 8 Dark Designs | p. 163 |
Part III World War II,: 1941-: 1945 | p. 193 |
Chapter 9 Into the Cold Night Rain | p. 195 |
Chapter 10 Bivouac Song | p. 225 |
Chapter 11 In Morning Sunlight | p. 253 |
Notes | p. 277 |
Index | p. 323 |