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Gateway state : Hawai'i and the cultural transformation of American empire /
How Hawai'i became an emblem of multiculturalism during its journey to statehood in the mid-twentieth century. Gateway State explores the development of Hawai'i as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of decolonization. The establishment of Ha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Politics and society in modern America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1 "The Picture Window of the Pacific": American Foreign Policy and the Remaking of Racial Difference in the Campaign for Hawai'i Statehood
- 2 Through the Looking Glass: Hawai'i and the Problem of Race in Postwar American Culture
- 3 The Power of Mutual Understanding: Teaching "New Modes of Life" in the New Frontier
- 4 Selling the "Golden People": Hawai'i Tourism and the Commodification of Racial Tolerance
- 5 Delicious Adventures and Multicolored Pantsuits: Gender and Cosmopolitan Selfhood in the Selling of Hawai'I
- 6 The Third World in the Fiftieth State: Ethnic Studies in Hawai'i and the Challenge to Liberal Multiculturalism
- Epilogue: Legacies of 1959: Multiculturalism and Colonialism in the "Decolonized" State
- Appendix
- Notes
- Sources
- Index