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Unsustainable Empire : Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood /

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 becaus...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saranillio, Dean Itsuji (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE. "Statehood Sucks"
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Colliding Futures of Hawai'i Statehood
  • Chapter 1. A Future Wish: Hawai'i at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition
  • Chapter 2. The Courage to Speak: Disrupting Haole Hegemony at the 1937 Congressional Statehood Hearings
  • Chapter 3. "Something Indefinable Would Be Lost": The Unruly Kamokila and Go for Broke!
  • Chapter 4. The Propaganda of Occupation: Statehood and the Cold War
  • Chapter 5. Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State
  • Conclusion. Scenes of Resurgence: Slow Violence and Slow Resistance
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index