Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i

Challenges the misconception of Hawai'i as a racial paradise by analyzing how ethnic inequality is maintained among its constituent groups

List of contents

1: Introduction; 2: Changing Ethnic Differences; 3: Socioeconomic Inequality and Ethnicity; 4: Educational Inequality and Ethnicity; 5: Constructing Ethnic Identities, Constructing Differences; 6: Japanese Americans: Toward Symbolic Identity; 7: Filipino Americans: Model Minority or Dogeaters?; 8: Conclusion

Summary

Challenging the dominant view of Hawai'i as a "melting pot paradise" - a place of ethnic tolerance and equality - this title examines how ethnic inequality is structured and maintained in island society. It finds that ethnicity, not race or class, signifies difference for Hawai'i's people and therefore structures their social relations.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Y. Okamura
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2008
• EAN: 9781592137565
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-756-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Asian American History and Culture Series; Asian American History & Cultu; Asian American History & Cultu
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology