There has been no proof that a person was allowed to “self-identify” to a non-existent code.
Those codes are the ones a parent could “self-select” from, but these were the official ones required to be used. If there was not a perfect fit, they had to choose the one closest. As in “other non-white”.
In that day and time those were the codes. Fact.
In all of the extensive research that I, and many others have done into just this one topic, we have never found anything that suggested a person could create their own race code.
Not even in Hawaii.
It should be easy enough to verify or invalidate whether there are other examples of non-standard racial designations being used on 1961 Hawaii birth records.
j...777 - that dude appears to have gotten the same treatment as the good Dr. Fukino. His phone number is “no longer in service”.
Guess we will have to wait for a whole new staff to be brought in. But if you have a special WORKING link or phone number for him at the DOH, I’d be happy to interview him, as long as he’s willing to provide official documented proof that they would allow a person to self-identify as to race/color in 1961. I of course mean, as something other than the official government approved and only authorized codes.
I am not at all afraid to get some actual truth.
None of the research we’ve done, or responses we have had to this question support that claim you make.