Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai I (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by University of Illinois Press, Baltimore, 2019

0252084438 / 9780252084430

Series: Book 31 of 34 - Asian American Experience

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Paperback. On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikiki. 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 deathfirst 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title
Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai I (Paperback)
Author
Jonathan Y. Okamura
Publisher
University of Illinois Press, Baltimore
Publication year
2019
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0252084438
ISBN 13
9780252084430
Series
Book 31 of 34: Asian American Experience

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