Sharma Nitasha Tamar Sharma

Hawai'i Is My Haven (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

HawaiE i Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both HawaiE i-raised Black locals and Black transplants who moved to the Islands from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Nitasha Tamar Sharma highlights the paradox of HawaiE i as a multiracial paradise and site of unacknowledged antiBlack racism. While Black culture is ubiquitous here, African-descended people seem invisible. In this formerly sovereign nation structured neither by the US Black/White binary nor the one-drop rule, nonWhite multiracials, including Black Hawaiians and Black Koreans, illustrate the coarticulation and limits of race and the native/settler divide. Despite erasure and racism, nonmilitary Black residents consider HawaiE i their haven, describing it as a place to "e;breathe"e; that offers the possibility of becoming local. Sharma's analysis of race, indigeneity, and Asian settler colonialism shifts North American debates in Black and Native studies to the Black Pacific. HawaiE i Is My Haven illustrates what the Pacific offers members of the African diaspora and how they in turn illuminate race and racism in "e;paradise."e;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478021667
• Artikelnr.: 68952818

Autorenporträt

Nitasha Tamar Sharma

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi Introduction: Hawai
i Is My Haven  1 1. Over Two Centuries: The History of Black People in Hawai
i  37 2. "Saltwater Negroes": Black Locals, Multiracialism, and Expansive Blackness  71 3. "Less Pressure": Black Transplants, Settler Colonialism, and a Racial Lens  120 4. Racism in Paradise: AntiBlack Racism and Resistance in Hawai
i 166 5. Embodying Kuleana: Negotiating Black and Native Positionality in Hawai
i  217 Conclusion: Identity↔Politics↔Knowledge  261 Notes  279 Bibliography  305 Index  331