Us, Hawai''i-Born Japanese - Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly From a Sugar

Informationen zum Autor Gaku Kinoshita was born in Japan and educated in both Japan and the US. He earned his Ph.D. in anthropology at the university of Hawai'i at Manoa. Klappentext This is a book about the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in the rural town of Puna, Hawai'i. Zusammenfassung A book on the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in Puna, Hawai'i, investigates the stories in which they remember, evaluate, and represent their past lives on the plantation. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsChapter One: IntroductionChapter Two: Plantation Stories and Collective IdentitiesChapter Three: Ethnic IdentityChapter Four: Class IdentityChapter Five: Generational IdentityChapter Six: Gendered IdentityChapter Seven: ConclusionAppendix A: Plantation StoriesAppendix B: Fujinkai SurveyNotes ReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Gaku Kinoshita, Kinoshita Gaku
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2006
• EAN: 9780415977982
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97798-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Studies in Asian Americans: Re; Studies in Asian Americans; Studies in Asian Americans: Re
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Kulturwissenschaften, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Altersgruppen: ältere Menschen, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Age groups: the elderly, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity