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Being Local in Hawaii: Talking Story with Julia of Wahiawa

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Author: Julia Matsui Higa
ISBN:  9781940984155
Publisher:  Aviva
Year: 2014
Format: Paper
Condition: New
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 In Being Local in Hawai’i, Julia Estrella (Keiko Matsui Higa) tells the fascinating story of her multicultural life and diverse experiences. Her first name was chosen for her from the Bible, but Keiko is her Japanese name. Her father was Japanese, her mother Okinawan, and her husband Filipino. She has lived in Hawai’i and California, but she has traveled around the world, including Okinawa, the Philippines, Cuba, and Kenya. Born less than a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, she grew up knowing many of the Japanese in Hawai’i and California, who were sent to the U.S. concentration camps for the Japanese. She experienced institutional racism through the tracking system in Hawaiian schools, and despite it, she went on to have a successful and meaningful career, pursuing higher education, serving many organizations, and being heavily involved in various churches.

Julia’s story is fascinating, and even more so are the many diverse stories she shares with all the people she has met, known, and advocated for. “Talking story” for Julia is a term that means not just telling stories, but telling stories that will enrich our lives, enlighten us, make us wiser and better people, and call upon us to do more to make the world a better place.

By now you realize that this is not a book of “feel good” stories about Hawai’i, complete with palm trees and hula skirts. Julia does love Hawai’i for many reasons, but the inspirational message of her stories is directed toward raising awareness about the gifts we all have to offer as different people and the need to redress social injustices around the world, many of which parallel situations in Hawai’i. Julia has advocated for the homeless in Hawai’i. She has advocated for the end of apartheid in South Africa. She sympathizes with the movements to end the U.S. occupation of Hawai’i and Puerto Rico, and she has spoken up against the use of nuclear weapons and the presence of U.S. military bases overseas in Micronesia and Okinawa.
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