Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. The Early Korean Immigration: An Overview 11
5. 2. Korean Immigration to Hawai‘i and the Korean Protestant Church 41
6. 3. Syngman Rhee in Hawai‘i: His Activities in the Early Years, 1913–1915 53
7. 4. Images and Crimes of Koreans in Hawai‘i: Media Portrayals, 1903–1925 89
8. 5. The March First Movement of 1919 and Koreans in Hawai‘i 123
9. 6. Local Struggles and Diasporic Politics: The 1931 Court Cases of the Korean National Association of Hawai‘i 153
10. 7. The Unification Movement of the Hawai‘i Korean Community in the 1930s 179
11. 8. How Koreans Repealed Their “Enemy Alien” Status: Korean Americans’ Identity, Culture, and National Pride in Wartime Hawai‘i 195
12. 9. “Unity for What? Unity for Whom?”: The United Korean Committee of North America, 1941–1945 220
13. 10. Korean Dance in Hawai‘i: A Century in the Public Eye 256
14. Contributors 279
15. Index 281