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From Okinawa to the Americas : Hana Yamagawa and Her Reminiscences of a Century /
Between 1889 and 1940 more than 40,000 Okinawan contract laborers emigrated to plantations in Hawaii, Brazil, the Philippines, and Peru. In 1912 seventeen-year-old Hana Kaneshi accompanied her husband and brother to South America and dreamed of returning home in two years' time a wealthy young...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2010]
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| Colección: | Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I: Tethered by a Silken Thread
- Childhood
- School Years
- Victory Celebration
- Growing Up
- Marriage
- II: Go, My Lucky Child
- Contract Labor
- Lima
- Yamagawa Kitaro
- III: On The Ship Of Good Fortune
- Imperial Valley
- Los Angeles
- The World War II Years
- Los Angeles Again
- IV: And Return
- Tethered By A Silken Thread
- Afterword
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography