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Unsustainable empire : alternative histories of Hawaiʻi statehood /

In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawaii's admission as a U.S. state. Hawaii statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawaii was undeserving of statehood because it was a largely...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saranillio, Dean Itsuji, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : "statehood sucks"
  • Introduction : Colliding futures of Hawaiʻi statehood
  • A future wish : Hawaiʻi at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition
  • The courage to speak : disrupting haole hegemony at the 1937 congressional statehood hearings
  • "Something indefinable would be lost" : the unruly Kamokila and Go for broke!
  • The propaganda of occupation : statehood and the Cold War
  • Alternative futures beyond the settler state
  • Conclusion : Scenes of resurgence : slow violence and slow resistance.