Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i [ebook ed.] 9780824873530

Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melt

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Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i [ebook ed.]
 9780824873530

Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction: New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i
CAMILLA FOJAS, RUDY P. GUEVARRA JR., AND NITASHA TAMAR SHARMA
E Micronesia, a poemku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui
1. Polynesia Is a Project, Not a Place: Polynesian Proximities to Whiteness in Cloud Atlas and Beyond
MAILE ARVIN
2. Mixed-Race Hollywood, Hawaiian Style
CAMILLA FOJAS
3. “I no eat dog, k”: Humor, Hazing, and Multicultural Settler Colonialism
RODERICK N. LABRADOR
4. “Eh! Where you from?”: Questions of Place, Race, and Identity in Contemporary Hawai‘i
JOHN P. ROSA
5. Race and/or Ethnicity in Hawai‘i: What’s the Difference and What Difference Does It Make?
JONATHAN Y. OKAMURA
6. The Racial Imperative: Rereading Hawai‘i’s History and Black-Hawaiian Relations through the Perspective of Black Residents
NITASHA TAMAR SHARMA
7. Local Boy, East Coast Sensibilities
CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH LOPA
8. “Latino Threat in the 808?” Mexican Migration and the Politics of Race in Hawai‘i
RUDY P. GUEVARRA JR.
9. Local Haole? Whites, Racial and Imperial Loyalties, and Membership in Hawai‘i
PAUL SPICKARD
10. Reconnecting Our Roots: Navigating the Turbulent Waters of Health-Care Policy for Micronesians in Hawai‘i
JOAKIM PETER, WAYNE CHUNG TANAKA, AND AIKO YAMASHIRO
Afterword: Hawai‘i Matters
GARY Y. OKIHIRO
Contributors
Index

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