Wesley Iwao Ueunten

Title

Wesley Iwao Ueunten

Birthplace

Kaua'i in Hawai'i, Okinawa

Primary Sources

Ueunten, W.I. (2017). Nakayoshi Group: Postwar Okinawan women’s articulations of identity in America. In Y. Takezawa & G.Y. Okihiro (Eds.), Trans-Pacific Japanese American studies: Conversations on race and racializations. University of Hawai'i Press.

Ueunten, W.I. (2015). Making sense of diasporic Okinawan identity within US global militarisation. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 37, n.p. Accessed Mar 1 2023. 
http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue37/ueunten1.htm

Ueunten, W.I. (2011). Nothing can compare: A selection of Okinawan folk songs. Manoa, 23(1), 65–70.  https://doi.org/10.1353/man.2011.0033

Uenten, W.I. (2010). Rising up from a sea of discontent: The 1970 Koza Uprising in U.S.-Occupied Okinawa. In S. Shigematsu & K.L. Camacho (Eds.), Militarized currents: Toward a decolonized future in Asia and the Pacific (pp. 91–124). University of Minnesota Press. 
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv7q0.10

Ueunten, W.I. (2007). The Okinawan revival in Hawai'i: Contextualizing culture and identity over diasporic time and space (Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley). Accessed March 1, 2023.  https://www.proquest.com/openview/266a5f6c38fbc108f95c8c6e06b0a9d9/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750

Ueunten, W.I. (2007). Okinawan diasporic identities: Between being a buffer and a bridge. In D.B. Willis & S. Murphy-Shigematsu (Eds.), Transcultural Japan: At the borderlands of race, gender and identity (pp. 159–178). Routledge.

Ueunten, W.I. (2002). Japanese Latin American internment from an Okinawan perspective. In R.Y. Nakasone (Ed.), Okinawan diaspora (pp. 90–111). University of Hawai’i Press. 
http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvvn5vb.10

Secondary Sources

Ichiro, T., & Ueunten, W. (2000). Japan's militarization and Okinawa's bases: Making peace. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 1(2): 349–356. 
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649370050141203

Extra Resources

Ueunten, W. (2014 February 6). Okinawan diaspora blues. Center for Art and Thought. Accessed March 1, 2023. 
https://www.centerforartandthought.org/work/contributor/wesley-ueunten/

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Citation

“Wesley Iwao Ueunten,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed November 24, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/390.

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