Saranillio Dean Itsuji Saranillio

Unsustainable Empire (eBook, PDF)

Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood

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Produktbeschreibung

In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai'i's admission as a U.S. state. Hawai'i statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawai'i was undeserving of statehood because it was a largely non-white territory. Yet Native Hawaiian opposition to statehood has been all but forgotten. Saranillio tracks these disparate stories by marshaling a variety of unexpected genres and archives: exhibits at world's fairs, political cartoons, propaganda films, a multimillion-dollar hoax on Hawai'i's tourism industry, water struggles, and stories of hauntings, among others. Saranillio shows that statehood was neither the expansion of U.S. democracy nor a strong nation swallowing a weak and feeble island nation, but the result of a U.S. nation whose economy was unsustainable without enacting a more aggressive policy of imperialism. With clarity and persuasive force about historically and ethically complex issues, Unsustainable Empire provides a more complicated understanding of Hawai'i's admission as the fiftieth state and why Native Hawaiian place-based alternatives to U.S. empire are urgently needed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478002291
• Artikelnr.: 54673383

Autorenporträt

Dean Itsuji Saranillio

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. "Statehood Sucks"  ix
Acknowledgments  xxi
Introduction. Colliding Futures of Hawai‘i Statehood  1
1. A Future Wish: Hawai‘i at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition 
31
2. The Courage to Speak: Disrupting Haole Hegemony at the 1937
Congressional Statehood Hearings  67
3. "Something Indefinable Would Be Lost": The Unruly Kamokila and Go for
Broke!  99
4. The Propaganda of Occupation: Statehood and the Cold War  131
5. Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State  171
Conclusion. Scenes of Resurgence: Slow Violence and Slow Resistance  197
Notes  211
Bibliography  245
Index  267