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Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i - Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case (Paperback)
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Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i - Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case (Paperback)
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On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally
murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikiki. Fukunaga, a
nineteen-year-old nisei, or second-generation Japanese American,
confessed to the crime. Within three weeks, authorities had
convicted him and sentenced him to hang, despite questions about
Fukunaga's sanity and a deeply flawed defense by his
court-appointed attorneys. Jonathan Y. Okamura argues that
officials "raced" Fukunaga to death-first viewing the accused only
as Japanese despite the law supposedly being colorblind, and then
hurrying to satisfy the Haole (white) community's demand for
revenge. Okamura sets the case against an analysis of the racial
hierarchy that undergirded Hawai'ian society, which was dominated
by Haoles who saw themselves most threatened by the islands'
sizable Japanese American community. The Fukunaga case and others
like it in the 1920s reinforced Haole supremacy and maintained the
racial boundary that separated Haoles from non-Haoles, particularly
through racial injustice. As Okamura challenges the representation
of Hawai i as a racial paradise, he reveals the ways Haoles usurped
the criminal justice system and reevaluates the tense history of
anti-Japanese racism in Hawai i.
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