Hawai'i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (PRE-ORDER)
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RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Author: Sharma, Nitasha Tamar
Publisher: Duke
Date: September 10, 2021
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781478014379
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Nitasha Sharma is the author of Hawai'i is my Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (Duke University Press, August 2021). This ethnography is based on a decade of fieldwork including interviews with 60 people of African descent in the islands, including Black Hawaiians, Black Japanese, and African American transplants from the continental U.S. Two questions frame this project: What does the Pacific offer people of African descent? And how does the racial lens of African Americans illuminate inequalities, including antiBlack racism, in the islands? Bringing Black Studies into conversation with Native Studies, it charts how Hawai‘i’s Black residents including Black hapas negotiate race, indigeneity, and culture. This work speaks to debates in Critical Mixed Race Studies, Comparative Race Studies, and Pacific Islands Studies to analyze Blackness in the Pacific and offer new theories of belonging that emerge from the intersection of race and indigeneity.
Based on interviews with sixty civilian black residents, including hawaiʻi-born locals and transplants to the islands, it engages debates in Black and Native studies, Asian settler colonialism, and critical mixed race studies. This ethnography on the Black Pacific addresses the intersection of race and indigeneity by centering Black and Native Hawaiian relations and the experiences of Black Hawaiians. The ethnographic evidence contests the framing of Black and Native people as discrete groups with distinct histories living in different geographies with divergent political futures.
The book argues that it is our kuleana (rights/responsibility) to listen to the voices of Hawaiʻi’s overlooked population of Black residents to address how decolonization will arrive hand in hand with antiracism.
About the Author
Nitasha Sharma works at Northwestern University and is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies; Director of Graduate Studies, Department of African American Studies; Director, Asian American Studies Program (2017-21).
Nitasha Sharma is the author of Hawai'i is my Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (Duke University Press, August 2021). This ethnography is based on a decade of fieldwork including interviews with 60 people of African descent in the islands, including Black Hawaiians, Black Japanese, and African American transplants from the continental U.S. Two questions frame this project: What does the Pacific offer people of African descent? And how does the racial lens of African Americans illuminate inequalities, including antiBlack racism, in the islands? Bringing Black Studies into conversation with Native Studies, it charts how Hawai‘i’s Black residents including Black hapas negotiate race, indigeneity, and culture. This work speaks to debates in Critical Mixed Race Studies, Comparative Race Studies, and Pacific Islands Studies to analyze Blackness in the Pacific and offer new theories of belonging that emerge from the intersection of race and indigeneity.
Based on interviews with sixty civilian black residents, including hawaiʻi-born locals and transplants to the islands, it engages debates in Black and Native studies, Asian settler colonialism, and critical mixed race studies. This ethnography on the Black Pacific addresses the intersection of race and indigeneity by centering Black and Native Hawaiian relations and the experiences of Black Hawaiians. The ethnographic evidence contests the framing of Black and Native people as discrete groups with distinct histories living in different geographies with divergent political futures.
The book argues that it is our kuleana (rights/responsibility) to listen to the voices of Hawaiʻi’s overlooked population of Black residents to address how decolonization will arrive hand in hand with antiracism.
About the Author
Nitasha Sharma works at Northwestern University and is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies; Director of Graduate Studies, Department of African American Studies; Director, Asian American Studies Program (2017-21).