Chinatown, Honolulu: Place, Race, and Empire

Nancy E. Riley

Published by Columbia University Press 2024

Chinatown, Honolulu

Place, Race, and Empire

Nancy E. Riley

https://doi.org/10.7312/rile19678

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About this book

This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai‘i from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in this context of U.S. empire, settler colonialism, and racialization.

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Nancy E. Riley is A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College. Her most recent book is Controlling Reproduction: Women, Society, and State Power (with Nilanjana Chatterjee, 2023).

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Jonathan Y. Okamura, author of Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai‘i: Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case:
As the first major work in more than forty years on Chinese in Hawai‘i, Chinatown, Honolulu promises to be the principal source about both the community and the ethnic group in the years to come. Well beyond her highly informative discussion on the historical development of Chinatown, Nancy Riley insightfully analyzes the changing status and experiences of Chinese in Hawai‘i, the evolving racial politics in the islands, and Hawai‘i’s pivotal role in U.S. empire building.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
NOTES ON TERMINOLOGY Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Race and Place in the Empire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. Setting the Stage: Chinese Experience Before 1900 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter Two. 1900 to 1930: Destruction of Chinatown and the (Re)building of a Chinese American Community Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter Three. World War II Comes to Hawai‘i: The 1930s Through 1945 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Chapter Four. Statehood Amid Cold War Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Chapter Five. Reconstructing Chinatown for a New Era Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Chapter Six. Chinatown Today: Confluence of Past and Present Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: July 18, 2024
ISBN: 9780231551823