Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i
Asian American Experience

Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i

Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case

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発行者による作品情報

On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikîkî. 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 death—first 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.

ジャンル
ノンフィクション
発売日
2019年
8月30日
言語
EN
英語
ページ数
252
ページ
発行者
University of Illinois Press
販売元
Chicago Distribution Center
サイズ
1.7
MB

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