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Creating the Nisei market : race and citizenship in Hawaiʻi's Japanese American consumer culture /

In 1922 the U.S. Supreme Court declared Japanese immigrants ineligible for American citizenship because they were not "white," dismissing the plaintiff's appeal to skin tone. Unable to claim whiteness through naturalization laws, Japanese Americans in Hawai'i developed their own...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Imai, Shiho, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Honolulu] : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2010]
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