Possessing Polynesians : The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania /

"From their earliest encounters with indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be, racially, almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polyne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Arvin, Maile, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Polynesians > Origin.
Ethnology.
Colonization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Polynesiens > Identite ethnique.
Polynesiens > Origines.
Ethnologie > Polynesie.
Polynesians > Race identity.
Ethnology > Polynesia.
Polynesia.
Polynesie > Colonisation.
Polynesia > Colonization.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Polynesia is a project, not a place
  • The Polynesian problem : scientific production of the 'almost white' Polynesian race
  • Heirlooms of the Aryan race : nineteenth-century studies of Polynesian origins
  • Conditionally Caucasian : Polynesian racial classification in early twentieth-century eugenics and physical anthropology
  • Hating Hawaiians, celebrating hybrid Hawaiian girls: sociology and the fictions of racial mixture
  • Regenerative refusals: confronting contemporary legacies of the Polynesian problem in Hawaii and Oceania
  • Still in the blood : blood quantum and self-determination in Day V. Apoliona and federal recognition
  • The value of Polynesian dna: genomic solutions to the Polynesian problem
  • Regenerating indigeneity: challenging possessive whiteness in contemporary Pacific art
  • Conclusion. Regenerating an Oceanic future in indigenous space-time.

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