Arvin Maile Renee Arvin

Possessing Polynesians (eBook, PDF)

The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania

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Produktbeschreibung

From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polynesians Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia, especially in Hawai'i. Arvin argues that a logic of possession through whiteness animates settler colonialism, by which both Polynesia (the place) and Polynesians (the people) become exotic, feminized belongings of whiteness. Seeing whiteness as indigenous to Polynesia provided white settlers with the justification needed to claim Polynesian lands and resources. Understood as possessions, Polynesians were and continue to be denied the privileges of whiteness. Yet Polynesians have long contested these classifications, claims, and cultural representations, and Arvin shows how their resistance to and refusal of white settler logic have regenerated Indigenous forms of recognition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478005650
• Artikelnr.: 66282394

Autorenporträt

Maile Arvin

Inhaltsangabe

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