Title From Okinawa to the Americas : Hana Yamagawa and her reminiscences of a century / edited by Akiko Yamagawa Hibbett

Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 210 pages) : illustrations, map Series Intersections. Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii) Contents 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 Summary First-hand account of the life of a female Okinawan immigrant in the New World. It spans nearly a centure from Hana Kaneshi's early life in a small viallage to a sugar plantation in Peru and its capital, Lima; to her dangerous trek through Mexico and the California desert to enter the U.S. and start a new life, this time in the Imperial Valley Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Yamagawa, Hana, 1894-1995. SUBJECT Yamagawa, Hana, 1894-1995 fast Subject Ryukyuans -- Peru -- Biography Ryukyuans -- California -- Biography SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies. Ryukyuans SUBJECT Okinawa-shi (Japan) -- Biography Subject California Japan -- Okinawa-shi Peru Genre/Form Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Hibbett, Akiko Yamagawa ISBN 9780824860950 0824860950 0824834003 9780824834005

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