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Author Okamura, Jonathan Y., author.

Title Raced to death in 1920s Hawaiʻi : injustice and revenge in the Fukunaga case / Jonathan Y. Okamura
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages)
Series The Asian American experience
Contents Introduction -- The racial setting of Hawaiʻi in the 1920s -- Kidnapping, killing, and racial profiling -- Capture, confession, and court -- Racial bias and injustice in jury selection and trial -- The insanity question -- Aftermath of death sentence : racial, legal, and community -- Conclusion : Fukunaga and Kahahawai
Summary On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikîkî. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 04, 2019)
Subject Fukunaga, Myles Yutaka, 1909-1929 -- Trials, litigation, etc
Trials (Murder) -- Hawaii -- History -- 20th century
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Hawaii -- History -- 20th century
Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Hawaii -- History -- 20th century
20th Century.
United States.
HISTORY.
Discrimination & Race Relations.
Asian American Studies.
Ethnic Studies.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Japanese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Race relations
Trials
Trials (Murder)
Hawaii -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Hawaii
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019005382
ISBN 0252051440
9780252051449