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Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan
Taku Suzuki
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Description for Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan
Hardcover. A study of an Okinawan diasporic community in South America and Japan. Based on the author's multisited field research on the work, education, and community lives of Okinawans in the Colonia and Yokohama, it challenges the unidirectional model of assimilation and acculturation commonly found in immigration studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, maps, cha. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KLSL; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Embodying Belonging is the first full-length study of an Okinawan diasporic community in South America and Japan. Under extraordinary conditions throughout the twentieth century (Imperial Japanese rule, the brutal Battle of Okinawa at the end of World War II, U.S. military occupation), Okinawans left their homeland and created various diasporic communities around the world. Colonia Okinawa, a farming settlement in the tropical plains of eastern Bolivia, is one such community that was established in the 1950s under the guidance of the U.S. military administration. Although they have flourished as farm owners in Bolivia, thanks to generous support from the Japanese ... Read more
Embodying Belonging is the first full-length study of an Okinawan diasporic community in South America and Japan. Under extraordinary conditions throughout the twentieth century (Imperial Japanese rule, the brutal Battle of Okinawa at the end of World War II, U.S. military occupation), Okinawans left their homeland and created various diasporic communities around the world. Colonia Okinawa, a farming settlement in the tropical plains of eastern Bolivia, is one such community that was established in the 1950s under the guidance of the U.S. military administration. Although they have flourished as farm owners in Bolivia, thanks to generous support from the Japanese ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824833442
SKU
V9780824833442
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About Taku Suzuki
Taku Suzuki is assistant professor of international studies at Denison University, Granville, Ohio.
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