Us, Hawai'i-born Japanese: Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly from a Sugar Plantation Community Contributor(s): Kinoshita, Gaku (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415977983 ISBN-13: 9780415977982 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2006 Annotation: 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. Investigating their plantation stories in which they remember, evaluate, and represent their past lives on the plantation from the 1920s to the 1980s, the author explores a process of which they collectively delineate their identities in terms of ethnicity, class, generation, and gender. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies - Social Science | Gerontology - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 305.260 |
LCCN: 2005031148 |
Series: Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, and Politics |
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.38" W x 9.02" (1.18 lbs) 300 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
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Publisher Description: 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. |