Unsustainable empire alternative histories of Hawaiʻi statehood
In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawaii's admission as a U.S. state. Hawaii statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawaii was undeserving of statehood because it was a largely...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham
Duke University Press
2018, 2018©2018
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawaii's admission as a U.S. state. Hawaii statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawaii 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 Hawaii'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 Hawaii's admission as the fiftieth state and why Native Hawaiian place-based alternatives to U.S. empire are urgently needed |
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| Item Description: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 |
| Physical Description: | xxvi, 282 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781478000624 1478000627 |