1st Edition

Us, Hawai'i-born Japanese Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly from a Sugar Plantation Community

By Gaku Kinoshita Copyright 2006
    300 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    300 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.

    List of Figures Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Plantation Stories and Collective Identities Chapter Three: Ethnic Identity Chapter Four: Class Identity Chapter Five: Generational Identity Chapter Six: Gendered Identity Chapter Seven: Conclusion Appendix A: Plantation Stories Appendix B: Fujinkai Survey Notes References Index

    Biography

    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.