Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945

Outstanding Book in History and Social Science Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1992

"Okihiro's account is an important corrective to our understanding of the Japanese American Experience in World War II."

--The Hawaiian Journal of History

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 e...