The Creation of Ethnicity: Hawaii's Okinawan Community

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.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	SHIRAMIZU, Shigehiko
Published in:	Japan Social Innovation Journal. - Faculty of Economics and Information Science. - Vol. 3.2013, 1, p. 19-19
Publisher:	Faculty of Economics and Information Science
Subject:	Ethnicity \| Hawaii's Okinawan \| Ethnic agent \| Uchinanchu movement \| Ethnoculturalism

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Extent:	text/html
Type of publication:	Article
Other identifiers:	10.12668/jsij.3.19 [DOI]
Classification:	Y20 - Introductory Material
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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