Maile Renee ArvinPossessing Polynesians
The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania
Acknowledgments Ix
Introduction: Polynesia Is a Project, Not a Place 1
Part I. The Polynesian Problem: Scientific Production of the "Almost White"
Polynesian Race 35
1. Heirlooms of the Aryan Race: Nineteenth-Century Studies of Polynesian
Origins 43
2. Conditionally Caucasian: Polynesian Racial Classification in Early
Twentieth-Century Eugenics and Physical Anthropology 67
3. hating Hawaiians, Celebrating Hybrid Hawaiian Girls: Sociology and the
Fictions of Racial Mixture 96
Part II. Regenerative Refusals: Confronting Contemporary Legacies of the
Polynesian Problem in Hawai'i and Oceania 125
4. Still in the Blood: Blood Quantum and Self-Determination in Day v.
Apoliona and Federal Recognition 135
5. The Value of Polynesian DNA: Genomic Solutions to the Polynesian
Problems 168
6. Regenerating Indigeneity: Challenging Possessive Whiteness in
Contemporary Pacific Art 195
Conclusion. Regenerating an Oceanic Future in Indigenous Space-Time 224
Notes 241
Bibliography 279
Index
