From Okinawa to the Americas : Hana Yamagawa and her reminiscences of a century

From Okinawa to the Americas : Hana Yamagawa and her reminiscences of a century /

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...

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Main Author: Yamagawa, Hana, 1894-1995
Other Authors: Hibbett, Akiko Yamagawa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2011.
Series:Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Subjects:
Yamagawa, Hana, > 1894-1995.
Yamagawa, Hana, > 1894-1995
Ryukyuans > Peru > Biography.
Ryukyuans > California > Biography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
Ryukyuans
Okinawa-shi (Japan) > Biography.
California
Japan > Okinawa-shi
Peru
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of 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

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