Background
Okihiro, Gary Yukio was born on October 14, 1945 in Aiea, Hawaii, United States. Son of Tetsuo and Alice (Shizue) Okihiro.
(Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical "...)
Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical "racial paradise," Gary Okihiro presents this history of a systematic anti-Japanese movement in the islands from the time migrant workers were brought to the sugar cane fields until the end of World War II. He demonstrates that the racial discrimination against Japanese Americans that occurred on the West Coast during the second World War closely paralleled the less familiar oppression of Hawaii's Japanese, which evolved from the production needs of the sugar planters to the military's concern over the "menace of alien domination." Okihiro convincingly argues that those concerns motivated the consolidation of the plantation owners, the Territorial government, and the U.S. military-Hawaii's elite-into a single force that propelled the anti-Japanese movement, while the military devised secret plans for martial law and the removal and detention of Japanese Americans in Hawaii two decades before World War II. Author note: Gary Y. Okihiro is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University.
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Okihiro, Gary Yukio was born on October 14, 1945 in Aiea, Hawaii, United States. Son of Tetsuo and Alice (Shizue) Okihiro.
Bachelor in History, Pacific Union College, 1967; Master of Arts in History, University of California at Los Angeles, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy in History, University of California at Los Angeles, 1976.
Teacher, Kgari Sechele II Secondary School, Molepolole, Botswana, 1968-1971;
teaching associate Asian American Studies Center, University of California at Los Angeles, 1973-1974;
instructor Asian American Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, 1977;
from assistant to associate professor ethnic studies, Humboldt State University, 1977-1980;
associate professor of history and ethnic studies, Santa Clara (California) U., 1980-1989;
visiting associate professor Asian American Studies program, Asian American Studies program Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1989-1990;
associate professor of history, Asian American Studies program Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1990-1995;
professor of history, Asian American Studies program Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, since 1995;
John Jay McCloy professor American Institutions and International Rels., Amherst College, 1991-1992. Research associate Joint Center for African Studies, University of California Berkeley/Stanford University, 1983-1984. Visiting scholar African Studies Center, Stanford University, 1985-1987.
Book reviewer New York Times Book Review, International Journal African History Studies, Journal American History, Amerasia Journal, Journal American Ethnic History, Oral History Review. Abstractor Sage Race Rels. Abstracts, 1982-1985.
Book reviews editor Humboldt Journal Social Rels., 1978-1980. Manuscript reviewer Cornell Univercity Press, Southern Illinois U. Press, University of California Press, U. Nebr.Press, Washington State University Press, U. Washington Press. Lecturer Yale University, University of Michigan, Colgate University, University of Wisconsin, Amherst College, Japanese American National Museum, Hampshire College.
Director various conferences. Presenter in field.
(Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical "...)
(Challenging the view of Hawaii as a mythical racial parad...)
(This historical book focuses on the Anti-Japanese Movemen...)
Member multicultural advisory board Superintendent of Schools Humboldt County, 1977-1980. Board directors Asian Americans for Community Involvement, 1987-1989, member, 1986-1990, San Jose Taiko Group, 1983-1990. Secretary Dennis Brutus Defense Committee, 1982-1983.
Member regional advisory council minority education program Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 1982-1983. Member budget allocations committee United Way of Santa Clara County, 1981-1982. Member San Jose Commission on the Internment of Local Japanese Americans, 1986-1990.
Member American Studies Association, Royal African Society (United Kingdom), African Studies Association, Association for Asian American Studies (secretary/treasurer 1983-1985, president 1985-1987), Organization American Historians.
Married Elizabeth Ritch, November 13, 1971. Children: Sean, Colin.