Mira Shimabukuro
A just memory of unintelligible life: “Speak, Okinawa”
I’m struggling to write this review.
Prior to February 2021, if you searched Amazon for books on “Okinawa,” you’d face a deluge of titles related to World War II: Bloody Okinawa, Crucible of Hell, Descent...
Okinawan Princess reclaims the power of a forbidden cultural practice in Okinawan culture
I’m a hapa haole Uchinanchu, born and raised in Portland, Oregon by a Montana-bred haole/white mother and a Hawai’i-bred Uchinanchu/Okinawan father. I am three generations removed from Uchinaaguchi, our indigenous language, two generations removed...