Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai'i

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Contributor(s): Fojas, Camilla (Editor), Guevarra, Rudy P (Editor), Sharma, Nitasha Tamar (Editor), Arvin, Maile (Contribution by), Fojas, Camilla (Contribution by), Guevarra, Rudy P (Contribution by), Ho'omanawanui (Contribution by), Labrador, Roderick N (Contribution by), Lopa, Christopher Joseph (Contribution by), Okamura, Jonathan Y (Contribution by), Okihiro, Gary Y (Contribution by), Peter, Joakim (Contribution by), Rosa, John P (Contribution by), Sharma, Nitasha Tamar (Contribution by), Spickard, Paul (Contribution by), Tanaka, Wayne Chung (Contribution by), Yamashiro, Aiko (Contribution by)

Beyond Ethnicity examines the dynamics between race, ethnicity, and indigeneity to challenge the primacy of ethnicity and cultural practices for examining difference in Hawai'i while recognizing the significant role of settler colonialism. This original and thought-provoking volume reveals what a racial analysis illuminates about the current political configuration of the islands and, in doing so, challenges how we conceptualize race on the continent.
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Recognizing the ways that Native Hawaiians or Kānaka Maoli are impacted by shifting, violent, and hierarchical colonial structures that include racial inequalities, the editors and contributors explore questions of personhood and citizenship through language, land, labor, and embodiment. By admitting to these tensions and ambivalences, the editors set the pace and tempo of powerfully argued essays that engage with the various ways that Kānaka Maoli and the influx of differentially racialized settlers continue to shift the social, political, and cultural terrains of the Hawaiian Islands over time.