The Creation of Ethnicity: Hawaii's Okinawan Community

Shigehiko Shiramizu
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Shigehiko Shiramizu: Faculty of Global Media Studies, Komazawa University

Japan Social Innovation Journal, 2013, vol. 3, issue 1, 19

Abstract: This paper examines the 1980s vitalization movement among the Okinawan community in Hawaii. Through long-term participant observation, I have found some young third generation people of Okinawan ancestry who established the Okinawan Festival and the Hawaii Okinawa Center. I refer to them as ethnic agents, a certain type of transformative agent. They have diffused a new idea of Uchina-culturalism among the Okinawan community of Hawaii.

Keywords: Ethnicity; Hawaii's Okinawan; Ethnic agent; Uchinanchu movement; Ethnoculturalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Y20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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