Rural Isolation and Dual Cultural Existence : The Japanese-American Kona Coffee Community

• Main Author: Abe, David K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethnology > Asia.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Religion and culture.; Historical sociology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319553030
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55303-0
• Physical Description: XI, 295 p. 24 illus., 12 illus. in color. online resource.

This book studies the Japanese-American coffee farmers in Kona, Hawaii. Specifically, it sheds light on the role of first and second generation immigrants in the emergence of the Kona coffee agricultural economy, as well as factors that contributed to the creation of the Japanese community in Kona....

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Issei: In Search for Autonomy
• 2. Religious and Social Communities: The Importance of Ethnic Solidary
• 3. The Nisei Experience
• 4. World War II
• 5. Rebuilding Social and Religious Communities: The Aftermath of the War.