UID:
almafu_9959673964902883
Format:
1 online resource (312 p.) :
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27 illustrations
ISBN:
9781478002291
Content:
In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state. Hawai‘i statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawai‘i 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 Hawai‘i’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 Hawai‘i’s admission as the fiftieth state and why Native Hawaiian place-based alternatives to U.S. empire are urgently needed.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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PREFACE. “Statehood Sucks” --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction. Colliding Futures of Hawai‘i Statehood --
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Chapter 1. A Future Wish: Hawai‘i at the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition --
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Chapter 2. The Courage to Speak: Disrupting Haole Hegemony at the 1937 Congressional Statehood Hearings --
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Chapter 3. “Something Indefinable Would Be Lost”: The Unruly Kamokila and Go for Broke! --
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Chapter 4. The Propaganda of Occupation: Statehood and the Cold War --
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Chapter 5. Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State --
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Conclusion. Scenes of Resurgence: Slow Violence and Slow Resistance --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478002291
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478002291
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478002291
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478002291
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478002291
