The Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973 9780824851149
On January 13, 1903, the first Korean immigrants arrived in Hawai'i. Numbering a little more than a hundred individ
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
A Note on Conventions
1. Prologue—The Arrival of the First Immigrants
2. Laboring on the Plantations
3. Organization and Disorganization
4. Methodist Mission Work
5. Exodus to the City
6. The Picture-Bride System
7. Futei Senjin: Japan and “Rebellious Koreans”
8. Educational Achievement and Social Disorganization
9. Intergenerational Conflict
10. Race Relations
11. The Pacific War and Wartime Restrictions
12. Epilogue—The Postwar Years
Notes
Bibliography
Index
