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'{{Infobox scholar | name = Gary Y. Okihiro | alt = | caption = | fullname = | othernames = | birth_name = <!-- Use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | residence = | era = | region = | workplaces = [[Columbia University]], [[Cornell University]], [[Yale University]] | alma_mater = [[Pacific Union College]], [[UCLA]] | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | school_tradition = | main_interests = historical methodology and theories of social and historical formations, the history of racism and racial formation in the U.S., pre-colonial and colonialist economic history, and race and world history | principal_ideas = | major_works = | awards = | influences = | influenced = | website = https://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/gary-okihiro | footnotes = | image = }} {{short description|American author and scholar}} '''Gary Y. Okihiro''' was an American author and scholar. At Yale,<ref name=treisman>{{Cite news | last = Treisman | first = Rachel | title = Gary Okihiro to join faculty | newspaper=[[Yale Daily News]] |date = September 5, 2017 | url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/09/05/gary-okihiro-to-join-faculty/}}</ref> he was 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 [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] in 1976.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Gary Okihiro {{!}} American Studies |url=https://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/gary-okihiro |access-date=2023-06-14 |website=americanstudies.yale.edu |language=en}}</ref> Okihiro died on May 20th, 2024 in New Haven, Connecticut.<ref>https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2024/05/21/farewell-to-gary-okihiro/</ref> == Education == Okihiro earned a B.A. in history from [[Pacific Union College]] in 1967.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Gary Okihiro · Digital Collections |url=https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/1173 |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=omeka.binghamton.edu}}</ref> He earned his M.A. in history from UCLA in 1972.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Okihiro |first=Gary |title=Gary Y. Okihiro |url=http://ac4link.ei.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/FacultyCV/GaryOkihiro.pdf |access-date=2023-06-14 |website=Columbia University Anthropology}}</ref> Okihiro earned his Ph.D. in African History at UCLA in 1976.<ref name=":1" /> His dissertation was titled "Hunters, Herders, Cultivators, and Traders: Interaction and Change in the Kgalagadi, Nineteenth Century."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gary Y. Okihiro papers, 1939-2018 {{!}} Rare Book & Manuscript Library {{!}} Columbia University Libraries Finding Aids |url=https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_12444537/dsc |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=findingaids.library.columbia.edu}}</ref> ==Career== Prior to Yale and Columbia, Okihiro was the director of [[Asian American Studies]] at [[Cornell University]].<ref>{{Cite web |first=Rachel |last=Treisman |date=2017-09-05 |title=Gary Okihiro to join faculty |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/09/05/gary-okihiro-to-join-faculty/ |access-date=2023-06-14 |website=Yale Daily News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Asian American Studies celebrates 35th anniversary |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/10/asian-american-studies-celebrates-35th-anniversary |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Cornell Chronicle |language=en}}</ref> He was recruited to Columbia partially as a result of a 1996 undergraduate student protest calling for an [[ethnic studies]] department to provide counterbalance to what was perceived to be a biased [[eurocentrism|pro-Western]] core curriculum.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2011-03-27 |title=From the Issue: Dissent Since '68 |work=Bwog: Columbia Student News |url=https://bwog.com/2011/03/from-the-issue-dissent-since-68/ |access-date=2023-06-14}}</ref> He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies and the [[American Studies Association]], and is a past president of the [[Association for Asian American Studies]]. In 2010, Okihiro received an honorary doctorate from the [[University of the Ryukyus]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=West Oʻahu: UHWO welcomes Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Gary Okihiro {{!}} University of Hawaii News |url=https://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=4927 |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=manoa.hawaii.edu}}</ref> ==Social Formation Theory== Okihiro is the originator of "[[social formation theory]]," which he defines as the forms and processes of power in society to oppress and exploit. By forms, he means the discourses and practices of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation, and by processes, he refers to the articulations and intersections of those social categories. Power is agency, while oppression is the restriction of agency, and exploitation, the expropriation of land and labor. Okihiro has also proposed a field of study that he calls "Third World studies" from the "Third World curriculum" demanded by students of the [[Third World Liberation Front]] in 1968. Third World studies, he contends, is the correct name for the field now known as "ethnic studies." He explains that name switch and some of its consequences in his book, "Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation" (2016). ==Writings== Okihiro is the author of twelve 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'' ({{ISBN|0877229457}}); *''Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture'' ({{ISBN|0295973390}}); *(with [[Joan Myers]]) ''Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II'' ({{ISBN|0295974982}}); *(with Linda Gordon) ''Impounded: Dorothea Lange And the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment'' ({{ISBN|039306073X}}); *''Common Ground: Reimagining American History'' ({{ISBN|0691070075}}); *''The Columbia Guide to Asian American History'' ({{ISBN|0231115113}}); *''Island World: A History of Hawai`i and the United States'' ({{ISBN|9780520252998}}); *''Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones'' ({{ISBN|9780520255135}}). *"American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders" ({{ISBN|9780520274358}}). *"Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation" ({{ISBN|9780822362098}}). He has also written on [[Africa]]n history, including ''A Social History of the Bakwena and Peoples of the Kalahari of Southern Africa, 19th Century'' ({{ISBN|0773478396}}). ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.garyokihiro.com/ Personal site] * [http://sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/gyo3-fac.html Columbia University faculty page] * [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/uscc/archives/news/opinion.htm "On Comparative Ethnic Studies"] by Gary Okihiro, [[Columbia Daily Spectator]], Feb. 20, 2004 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20061211223602/http://www.asianweek.com/051096/CampusPoli.html "College students renew demands for ethnic studies programs"] by Alethea Yip, [[AsianWeek]], May 10, 1996 * [http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead//nnc-rb/ldpd_11220805 Gary Okihiro Papers] at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, NY * [https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/1173 Interview with Gary Okihiro] by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s, November 2010 {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Okihiro, Gary}} [[Category:American writers of Japanese descent]] [[Category:Columbia University faculty]] [[Category:Cornell University faculty]] [[Category:Yale University faculty]] [[Category:American academics of Japanese descent]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni]]'