Culture and power in the context of the Okinawan-Hawaiian diaspora : imagining the homeland, return and remaking identities

In 1900, a group of Okinawans sailed to Honolulu aboard the SS China in order to escape the hardships of Japanese colonization in Okinawa. Over a century later, their descendants represent the largest Okinawan diaspora in the world today. This study examines the divergent trajectories of cultural de...

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Main Author: Higa, H. K.
Published: Nottingham Trent University 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.629272