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15 novembre 2018

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9781478002291

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

16 Mo

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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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

15 novembre 2018

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781478002291

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

16 Mo

UNSUSTAINABLE EMPIRE

UNSUSTAINABLE EMPIREALTERNATIVE HISTORIES HAWAI‘I OF STATEHOOD

DEAN ITSUJI SARANILLIO

Duke University Press | Duram and London |

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Saranillio, Dean Itsuji, [date] autor. Title: Unsustainable empire : alternative istories of Hawai‘i stateood / Dean Itsuji Saranillio. Description: Duram : Duke University Press, . | Includes bibliograpical references and index. Identiﬁers:   (print) |   (ebook)   (ebook)   (ardcover : alk. paper)   (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: : Hawaii—Politics and government—–. | Hawaii—Politics and government—– | Hawaii— History—–. | Hawaii—History—– | Stateood (American politics) | Hawaiians—Political activity. Classiﬁcation:  . (ebook) |  . .s  (print) |  ./—dc  record available at ttps://lccn.loc.gov/

Frontispiece: “Stateood,” by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake ().

Cover art: Banners tat read “ ” wit military ﬁgter aircraft. Poto taken from inside te Hawai‘i State Capitol building, Marc , . Potograp courtesy of Jonatan Sisido.

 Heijin, Hyun, and Yuna

MoterEloise,FaterDick,Candace, Selley, and Drew

Tai, Kota, Devan, Seyne, Nanami, and Sora

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CONTENTS

ix  | “Stateood Sucks”

xxi 

  | Colliding Futures of Hawai‘i Stateood

   | A Future Wis: Hawai‘i at te  Cicago World’s Columbian Exposition

   | he Courage to Speak: Disrupting Haole Hegemony at te  Congressional Stateood Hearings

   | “Someting Indeﬁnable Would Be Lost”: he Unruly Kamokila andGo for Broke!

   | he Propaganda of Occupation: Stateood and te Cold War

   | Alternative Futures beyond te Settler State

  | Scenes of Resurgence: Slow Violence and Slow Resistance

     

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PREFACE

St “ ateood Sucks”

he owner of a popular Facebook group, “We Grew Up on Maui,” posted a poto of a rusting green Cevrolet. In keeping wit displaying one’s place-based relation to a larger island community via teir opes or concerns, te straigt-to-te-point bumper sticker read, “ .” he caption to te poto added: “Just appened to see tis bum-per sticker today—Stateood Day—wile I was eating breakfast in Kaului. #Ironic.” Suc irony is eigtened under conditions of occupation as most residents of Hawai‘i, and U.S. residents generally, view opposition to state-ood as contradictory and unexpected. Suc dissent is often dismissed as umorous and koloe, or “miscievous,” yet futile because stateood is imagined as not only aving been resolved back in  but permanently settled, te igest form of U.S. governance attainable—te pinnacle of settler civilization. Yet, lying quietly just beind tis dismissal is a well of discomfort. Suc discomfort migt serve as a space of learning, as Kanaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) istory and an ever-growing movement not only questions te very legitimacy of te United States in Hawai‘i, but impor-tantly oﬀers culturally ric and istorically meaningful alternatives to te current system. As suc, “Stateood Day” or Admission Day becomes a state oliday tat enables most to grapple wit a major istorical contradic-tion for anyone wo as even moderately learned about Hawai‘i’s istory. his contradiction, owever, is not limited to Hawai‘i. he neat and tidy spatial geograpies of ﬁfty U.S. states constrains imaginative space,

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