Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai I: Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case (The Asian American Experience) - Hardcover

Buch 31 von 34: Asian American Experience

Okamura, Jonathan Y.

 
9780252042607: Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai I: Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case (The Asian American Experience)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0252042603 ISBN 13: 9780252042607
Verlag: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikîkî. Fukunaga, a nineteen-year-old nisei, or second-generation Japanese American, confessed to the crime. Within three weeks, authorities had convicted him and sentenced him to hang, despite questions about Fukunaga's sanity and a deeply flawed defense by his court-appointed attorneys. Jonathan Y. Okamura argues that officials "raced" Fukunaga to death-first viewing the accused only as Japanese despite the law supposedly being colorblind, and then hurrying to satisfy the Haole (white) community's demand for revenge. Okamura sets the case against an analysis of the racial hierarchy that undergirded Hawai'ian society, which was dominated by Haoles who saw themselves most threatened by the islands' sizable Japanese American community. The Fukunaga case and others like it in the 1920s reinforced Haole supremacy and maintained the racial boundary that separated Haoles from non-Haoles, particularly through racial injustice. As Okamura challenges the representation of Hawai i as a racial paradise, he reveals the ways Haoles usurped the criminal justice system and reevaluates the tense history of anti-Japanese racism in Hawai i.

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Jonathan Y. Okamura is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai i. He is the author of several books, most recently From Race to Ethnicity: Interpreting Japanese American Experiences in Hawai i.

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Verlag
UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252042603
ISBN 13 
9780252042607
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
252
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