Gary Y. Okihiro

Who is Gary Y. Okihiro?

Gary Y. Okihiro is an Asian American author and scholar. He is a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University in New York City and the founding director of Columbia's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. Okihiro received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1976.

He is the author of ten books, six of which have won national awards, and dozens of articles on historical methodology and theories of social and historical formations, and the history of racism and racial formation in the U.S., African pre-colonial economic history, and race and world history. Among his books are:

Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945;

Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture;

Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II;

Impounded: Dorothea Lange And the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment;

Common Ground: Reimagining American History;

The Columbia Guide to Asian American History;

Island World: A History of Hawai`i and the United States;