Okinawa and the U.S. military : identity making in the age of globalization / Masamichi S. Inoue.
Okinawa and the U.S. military : identity making in the age of globalization / Masamichi S. Inoue.
Okinawa and the U.S. military : identity making in the age of globalization / Masamichi S. Inoue.
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New York : Columbia University Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N355.70952/ 2
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English
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xiii, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1 Introduction -- 2 The rape incident and the predicaments of Okinawan identity -- 3 Reduced to culture without politics and history : a critique of modern Okinawan studies -- 4 "We are Okinawans of a different kind" : Henoko history, Camp Schwab, and working-class ideology of difference -- 5 "We ar...
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New York : Columbia University Press, 2007.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2007.
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"In 1995, an Okinawan schoolgirl was brutally raped by several U.S. servicemen. Using this event as a point of reference, Masamichi S. Inoue explores how Okinawans began to regard themselves less as a group of uniformly poor and oppressed people and more as a confident, diverse, middle-class citizenry embracing the ideals of democracy, human rights...
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Okinawa and the U.S. military : identity making in the age of globalization / Masamichi S. Inoue.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N355.70952/ 2
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74VK73dDMBx3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK73dDMBx3
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0231511140 (electronic : alk. paper)
0231138903 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231138901
9780231511148 (electronic : alk. paper)
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355.70952294
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991022808199702626
