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1 online resource (xxvi, 282 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 non-white territory. Yet Native Hawaiian opposition to statehood has been all but forgotten. Saranillio tracks these disparate stories by marshaling a variety of unexpected genres and archives: exhibits at world's fairs, political cartoons, propaganda films, a multimillion-dollar hoax on Hawaii's tourism industry, water struggles, and stories of hauntings, among others. Saranillio shows that statehood was neither the expansion of U.S. democracy nor a strong nation swallowing a weak and feeble island nation, but the result of a U.S. nation whose economy was unsustainable without enacting a more aggressive policy of imperialism. With clarity and persuasive force about historically and ethically complex issues, Unsustainable Empire provides a more complicated understanding of Hawaii's admission as the fiftieth state and why Native Hawaiian place-based alternatives to U.S. empire are urgently needed |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Statehood (American politics)
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Hawaiians -- Political activity
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HISTORY -- Oceania.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
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Hawaiians -- Political activity
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Politics and government
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Statehood (American politics)
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| SUBJECT |
Hawaii -- Politics and government -- 1900-1959. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85059360
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Hawaii -- Politics and government -- 1959- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85059361
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Hawaii -- History -- 1900-1959. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85059353
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Hawaii -- History -- 1959- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85059354
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Hawaii
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018026377 |
| ISBN |
9781478002291 |
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1478002298 |
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