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Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii 1865-1945 (Asian American History and Culture)
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by Gary Y. Okihiro
Sales Rank: 1199903
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 330 pages
Published by: Temple University Press April 1991
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0877227993
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0877227991
From Library Journal
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.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
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 occurred on the West Coast during the second World War closely paralleled the less familiar oppression of Hawaiis Japanese, which evolved from the production requirements of the sugar planters to the militarys 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-Hawaiis 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.
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