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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 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saranillio, Dean Itsuji, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.