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- Title
A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE AND STATUS OF THE NEGRO IN THE HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY.
- Authors
Lee, Lloyd L.
- Abstract
The article presents a brief analysis of the role and status of the Negro in the Hawaiian community. The scarcity of historical and statistical data on the Negro in Hawaii is not apparent until efforts are made to discover them. Before 1941 no systematic study had been made of the Negro as a group. There were a few references in several books, but the sparsity of these references seemed only to emphasize that the few Negroes in the Islands had only a negligible influence upon community life, indeed, to make anything approximating an adequate historical account of the local Negro would require a very close perusal of Hawaiian history. It has been difficult sometimes to distinguish a Negro in the Hawaiian community. Unless he possessed obviously well-defined Negroid features, such as very dark skin, kinky hair, and everted lips, a Negro might well be mistaken for an ethnic Hawaiian or for a member of a certain group of Portuguese from the Cape Verde Islands or Puerto Ricans which had been imported for plantation labor.
- Subjects
HAWAII; UNITED States; AFRICAN American social life &; customs; AFRICAN Americans; HAWAIIAN history; LABOR; ISLANDS
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1948, Vol 13, Issue 4, p419
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2087236