Beyond Ethnicity : : New Politics of Race in Hawai'i / / ed. by Rudy P. Guevarra, Camilla Fojas, Nitasha Tamar Sharma.

Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai'i's myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai'i is understood. Instead, ethnic d...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1 b&w illustration
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: New Politics of Race in Hawai'i
  • E Micronesia
  • Chapter 1. Polynesia Is a Project, Not a Place: Polynesian Proximities to Whiteness in Cloud Atlas and Beyond
  • Chapter 2. Mixed-Race Hollywood, Hawaiian Style
  • Chapter 3. "I no eat dog, k"
  • Chapter 4. "Eh! Where you from?"
  • Chapter 5. Race and/or Ethnicity in Hawai'i
  • Chapter 6. The Racial Imperative
  • Chapter 7. Local Boy, East Coast Sensibilities
  • Chapter 8. "Latino Threat in the 808?"
  • Chapter 9. Local Haole?
  • Chapter 10. Reconnecting Our Roots
  • Afterword: Hawai'i Matters
  • Contributors
  • Index