UID:
edoccha_9961355705402883
Format:
1 online resource (313 pages)
ISBN:
1-4780-9405-2
,
1-4780-0229-8
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.
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4780-0062-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478002291
