John P. Rosa
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824828257
- eISBN:
- 9780824868468
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824828257.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter examines how Native Hawaiian struggles in the early decades of the twentieth century often allowed Hawaiians to align themselves on the side of working-class Asians, Portuguese, Puerto ...
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This chapter examines how Native Hawaiian struggles in the early decades of the twentieth century often allowed Hawaiians to align themselves on the side of working-class Asians, Portuguese, Puerto Ricans, and other locals. The death of Joseph Kahahawai in January 1932 at the hands of four mainland haoles was seen as more than merely an injury against the Native Hawaiian community. His murder was cast as a story of local oppression, revealing to Native Hawaiians that they had more in common with working-class peoples of color and were part of an emerging local culture. These common interests challenged the tenuous and contradictory alliances that Native Hawaiian elites had sometimes formed with white merchants, planters, and governing officials who sought desperately to preserve their oligarchic control of territorial Hawaii.Less
This chapter examines how Native Hawaiian struggles in the early decades of the twentieth century often allowed Hawaiians to align themselves on the side of working-class Asians, Portuguese, Puerto Ricans, and other locals. The death of Joseph Kahahawai in January 1932 at the hands of four mainland haoles was seen as more than merely an injury against the Native Hawaiian community. His murder was cast as a story of local oppression, revealing to Native Hawaiians that they had more in common with working-class peoples of color and were part of an emerging local culture. These common interests challenged the tenuous and contradictory alliances that Native Hawaiian elites had sometimes formed with white merchants, planters, and governing officials who sought desperately to preserve their oligarchic control of territorial Hawaii.
Amy L. Brandzel
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040030
- eISBN:
- 9780252098239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040030.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter uses Rice v. Cayetano (2000), a Supreme Court case involving a white citizen's challenge to Native Hawaiian representation, as a springboard to explore how race and coloniality are set ...
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This chapter uses Rice v. Cayetano (2000), a Supreme Court case involving a white citizen's challenge to Native Hawaiian representation, as a springboard to explore how race and coloniality are set up as oppositional, anti-intersectional politics. Kanaka Maoli and other indigenous scholars and activists have been quite vocal in critiquing the ways in which the discourse of civil rights and racism serves to obscure and undermine sovereignty claims and critiques of colonialism. The chapter adds to these critiques by demonstrating how the combination of legal and historical discourses sets up a battle between the recognition of racism and the recognition of settler colonialism. It illuminates how discourses of citizenship, law, and history collude to (re)produce the misrecognition and disaggregation of anticolonialist and antiracist endeavors.Less
This chapter uses Rice v. Cayetano (2000), a Supreme Court case involving a white citizen's challenge to Native Hawaiian representation, as a springboard to explore how race and coloniality are set up as oppositional, anti-intersectional politics. Kanaka Maoli and other indigenous scholars and activists have been quite vocal in critiquing the ways in which the discourse of civil rights and racism serves to obscure and undermine sovereignty claims and critiques of colonialism. The chapter adds to these critiques by demonstrating how the combination of legal and historical discourses sets up a battle between the recognition of racism and the recognition of settler colonialism. It illuminates how discourses of citizenship, law, and history collude to (re)produce the misrecognition and disaggregation of anticolonialist and antiracist endeavors.
Claire Townsend Ing, Rebecca Delafield, and Shelley Soong
Winona K. Mesiona Lee and Mele A. Look (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780824872731
- eISBN:
- 9780824875718
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824872731.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
Hawaiians have faced historical and cultural traumas leading to modern day inequities in the social, economic and political realms. These inequities contribute to poor health status that many Native ...
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Hawaiians have faced historical and cultural traumas leading to modern day inequities in the social, economic and political realms. These inequities contribute to poor health status that many Native Hawaiians experience. Two groups have attempted to improve these health outcomes, Academic researchers and the Native Hawaiian community. However, often times the approaches and goals of these two groups are at odds. Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is an approach that seeks to combine community goals, action, and priorities with those of academic research. This chapter illustrates the evolution of CBPR in Hawai‘i, and its meaningful principles that have been effective for both the Native Hawaiian and research communities in their promotion of health.Less
Hawaiians have faced historical and cultural traumas leading to modern day inequities in the social, economic and political realms. These inequities contribute to poor health status that many Native Hawaiians experience. Two groups have attempted to improve these health outcomes, Academic researchers and the Native Hawaiian community. However, often times the approaches and goals of these two groups are at odds. Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is an approach that seeks to combine community goals, action, and priorities with those of academic research. This chapter illustrates the evolution of CBPR in Hawai‘i, and its meaningful principles that have been effective for both the Native Hawaiian and research communities in their promotion of health.
Momiala Kamahele
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824830151
- eISBN:
- 9780824869243
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824830151.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter defines Hawaiian culture as a “contested culture under colonial domination.” It describes the formation of ‘Īlio‘ulaokalani, a coalition of Hawaiian hula practitioners who joined forces ...
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This chapter defines Hawaiian culture as a “contested culture under colonial domination.” It describes the formation of ‘Īlio‘ulaokalani, a coalition of Hawaiian hula practitioners who joined forces in 1997 to oppose efforts by Asian and white settler legislators like Randy Iwase and Ed Case to revoke Hawaiian statutory and constitutional rights to access and gather resources of the land. Although the coalition successfully opposed Senate Bill 8, the chapter concludes that “no matter how hard we work, if we don't have our own nation, if we don't achieve sovereignty, then we will never, never have clearly defined lands or clearly defined rights to practice our culture.”Less
This chapter defines Hawaiian culture as a “contested culture under colonial domination.” It describes the formation of ‘Īlio‘ulaokalani, a coalition of Hawaiian hula practitioners who joined forces in 1997 to oppose efforts by Asian and white settler legislators like Randy Iwase and Ed Case to revoke Hawaiian statutory and constitutional rights to access and gather resources of the land. Although the coalition successfully opposed Senate Bill 8, the chapter concludes that “no matter how hard we work, if we don't have our own nation, if we don't achieve sovereignty, then we will never, never have clearly defined lands or clearly defined rights to practice our culture.”
Ku‘ualoha Ho‘omanawanui
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824830151
- eISBN:
- 9780824869243
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824830151.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter focuses on the differences between the representations of ‘āina (land) in the contemporary literature of Hawai‘i, popularly referred to as “local literature.” It argues that there is a ...
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This chapter focuses on the differences between the representations of ‘āina (land) in the contemporary literature of Hawai‘i, popularly referred to as “local literature.” It argues that there is a distinction between representations of ‘āina in Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) literature and Asian and other settler or “local” literature. The main differences in representation between these two literatures center on how ‘āina and Kanaka Maoli are described and portrayed, as well as the inclusion, use of, and attitudes toward language—‘ōlelo Hawai‘i (Hawaiian language), English, and Hawai‘i Creole English (HCE, commonly referred to as “pidgin”) in particular. These differences in representation exist because Kanaka Maoli and settlers are operating from different cultural paradigms and different language bases.Less
This chapter focuses on the differences between the representations of ‘āina (land) in the contemporary literature of Hawai‘i, popularly referred to as “local literature.” It argues that there is a distinction between representations of ‘āina in Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) literature and Asian and other settler or “local” literature. The main differences in representation between these two literatures center on how ‘āina and Kanaka Maoli are described and portrayed, as well as the inclusion, use of, and attitudes toward language—‘ōlelo Hawai‘i (Hawaiian language), English, and Hawai‘i Creole English (HCE, commonly referred to as “pidgin”) in particular. These differences in representation exist because Kanaka Maoli and settlers are operating from different cultural paradigms and different language bases.
Jodi A. Byrd
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816676408
- eISBN:
- 9781452947754
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816676408.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter focuses on how the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007 has been framed both within Hawai‘i and on the continent as a way to understand how the United States uses ...
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This chapter focuses on how the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007 has been framed both within Hawai‘i and on the continent as a way to understand how the United States uses discourses of Indianness to solidify its presence in the Pacific as it develops and contorts federal law to colonize indigenous nations. It studies how the continual transformation and revision of federal Indian policy becomes a coherent and inevitable expansionist discourse orchestrated by a seemingly static United States. In the face of colonial processes that seek to hide the fractures within U.S. boundaries among American Indian nations, it is important to investigate how discourses of Indianness are used both by the imperial U.S. government and by those Native Hawaiian activists who frame “Indianness” as an infection threatening their rights and status as an internationally recognized sovereign state.Less
This chapter focuses on how the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007 has been framed both within Hawai‘i and on the continent as a way to understand how the United States uses discourses of Indianness to solidify its presence in the Pacific as it develops and contorts federal law to colonize indigenous nations. It studies how the continual transformation and revision of federal Indian policy becomes a coherent and inevitable expansionist discourse orchestrated by a seemingly static United States. In the face of colonial processes that seek to hide the fractures within U.S. boundaries among American Indian nations, it is important to investigate how discourses of Indianness are used both by the imperial U.S. government and by those Native Hawaiian activists who frame “Indianness” as an infection threatening their rights and status as an internationally recognized sovereign state.
Mac Marshall
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824836856
- eISBN:
- 9780824871123
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824836856.003.0010
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter focuses on the negative health effects of smoking on “Native Hawaiians,” also called Kānaka Maoli. Among Hawaii's different ethnic groups, Native Hawaiians ranked highest for a variety ...
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This chapter focuses on the negative health effects of smoking on “Native Hawaiians,” also called Kānaka Maoli. Among Hawaii's different ethnic groups, Native Hawaiians ranked highest for a variety of cancer risk factors, including tobacco and alcohol use, obesity, and a diet high in processed foods and calories, with substantial amounts of saturated fat, total fat, and cholesterol and low in calcium, folate, vitamin C, and fiber. Research also shows that “overall, lung cancer rates have remained markedly higher for Kānaka Maoli than for the other ethnic groups in both sexes.” In addition, a recent article, noted that cardiovascular disease rates were higher for men than for women and that those with diabetes had four times the rate of nondiabetics.Less
This chapter focuses on the negative health effects of smoking on “Native Hawaiians,” also called Kānaka Maoli. Among Hawaii's different ethnic groups, Native Hawaiians ranked highest for a variety of cancer risk factors, including tobacco and alcohol use, obesity, and a diet high in processed foods and calories, with substantial amounts of saturated fat, total fat, and cholesterol and low in calcium, folate, vitamin C, and fiber. Research also shows that “overall, lung cancer rates have remained markedly higher for Kānaka Maoli than for the other ethnic groups in both sexes.” In addition, a recent article, noted that cardiovascular disease rates were higher for men than for women and that those with diabetes had four times the rate of nondiabetics.
Lisa King
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824838959
- eISBN:
- 9780824869496
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824838959.003.0012
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter examines the ways in which the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Honolulu has recognized Native Hawaiian rhetorics through which it has maintained and displayed its collections. In ...
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This chapter examines the ways in which the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Honolulu has recognized Native Hawaiian rhetorics through which it has maintained and displayed its collections. In particular, it considers the 2006–2009 renovation of the museum’s Hawaiian Hall facilities as an attempt to decolonize the rhetorical habits of the institution regarding its relationship with the Native Hawaiian community. The chapter first traces the history of the Bishop Museum before discussing the role of museums as rhetorical sites that may provide counternarratives to colonial representations or even to postcolonial representations. It then turns to the Hawaiian Hall exhibit to illustrate the problems the Bishop Museum has had in its relationship to Native Hawaiians. More specifically, it also explores how the participation of the Native Hawaiian community in the Hawaiian Hall renovation has created opportunities for ongoing “rhetorical sovereignty” in specifically Native Hawaiian terms while simultaneously revealing the problems and ambiguities of trying to do so within a traditionally colonial framework.Less
This chapter examines the ways in which the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Honolulu has recognized Native Hawaiian rhetorics through which it has maintained and displayed its collections. In particular, it considers the 2006–2009 renovation of the museum’s Hawaiian Hall facilities as an attempt to decolonize the rhetorical habits of the institution regarding its relationship with the Native Hawaiian community. The chapter first traces the history of the Bishop Museum before discussing the role of museums as rhetorical sites that may provide counternarratives to colonial representations or even to postcolonial representations. It then turns to the Hawaiian Hall exhibit to illustrate the problems the Bishop Museum has had in its relationship to Native Hawaiians. More specifically, it also explores how the participation of the Native Hawaiian community in the Hawaiian Hall renovation has created opportunities for ongoing “rhetorical sovereignty” in specifically Native Hawaiian terms while simultaneously revealing the problems and ambiguities of trying to do so within a traditionally colonial framework.
Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula
Winona K. Mesiona Lee and Mele A. Look (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780824872731
- eISBN:
- 9780824875718
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824872731.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This essay explores the social and cultural determinants of Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) health and the pathways to Mauli Ola (optimal health and wellbeing). Future opportunities for enhancing ...
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This essay explores the social and cultural determinants of Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) health and the pathways to Mauli Ola (optimal health and wellbeing). Future opportunities for enhancing Mauli Ola explored are the demographic changes in the Kanaka ʻŌiwi population, continuing cultural revitalization efforts, participation in the larger society, and self-determination and the larger international Indigenous movement. Several shared Kanaka ʻŌiwi aspirations important to Mauli Ola are highlighted to include supporting a strong Kanaka ʻŌiwi identity and space, strengthening ‘ohana (family) relations, and ensuring the practice of mālama ‘āina and aloha ‘āina.Less
This essay explores the social and cultural determinants of Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) health and the pathways to Mauli Ola (optimal health and wellbeing). Future opportunities for enhancing Mauli Ola explored are the demographic changes in the Kanaka ʻŌiwi population, continuing cultural revitalization efforts, participation in the larger society, and self-determination and the larger international Indigenous movement. Several shared Kanaka ʻŌiwi aspirations important to Mauli Ola are highlighted to include supporting a strong Kanaka ʻŌiwi identity and space, strengthening ‘ohana (family) relations, and ensuring the practice of mālama ‘āina and aloha ‘āina.
Gregory Rosenthal
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520295063
- eISBN:
- 9780520967960
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520295063.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This Introduction applies broad brushstrokes to place the story of Hawaiʻi’s nineteenth-century indigenous migrant workers in the context of Hawaiian and Pacific historiography, as well as theories ...
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This Introduction applies broad brushstrokes to place the story of Hawaiʻi’s nineteenth-century indigenous migrant workers in the context of Hawaiian and Pacific historiography, as well as theories of labor history, environmental history, the history of capitalism, and the history of the body. The introduction explores the discursive construction of the “kanaka” as a racialized and gendered laboring body type; the concept of a “Hawaiian Pacific World”; and the unique characteristics of nineteenth-century Hawaiian capitalism. The introduction also explores the methodological and ethical issues involved in conducting research in Native Hawaiian history, and includes concise chapter summaries.Less
This Introduction applies broad brushstrokes to place the story of Hawaiʻi’s nineteenth-century indigenous migrant workers in the context of Hawaiian and Pacific historiography, as well as theories of labor history, environmental history, the history of capitalism, and the history of the body. The introduction explores the discursive construction of the “kanaka” as a racialized and gendered laboring body type; the concept of a “Hawaiian Pacific World”; and the unique characteristics of nineteenth-century Hawaiian capitalism. The introduction also explores the methodological and ethical issues involved in conducting research in Native Hawaiian history, and includes concise chapter summaries.
Ida Yoshinaga and Eiko Kosasa
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824830151
- eISBN:
- 9780824869243
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824830151.003.0016
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter challenges popular assumptions about the ways that Asian settlers like Daniel Inouye have “helped Hawaiians.” It shows that Inouye, who has accrued an extraordinary amount of political ...
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This chapter challenges popular assumptions about the ways that Asian settlers like Daniel Inouye have “helped Hawaiians.” It shows that Inouye, who has accrued an extraordinary amount of political power for himself as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, including the Subcommittee on Defense and Military Construction and the Subcommittee on Veteran Affairs, and of the Committee on Indian Affairs, is an institution backed by highly visible community organizations like the Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL). This chapter challenges Inouye and the JACL for their participation in a smear campaign against Native Hawaiian nationalist Mililani Trask, who had criticized Inouye's attempts to control the process for a self-determined sovereignty for Hawaiians.Less
This chapter challenges popular assumptions about the ways that Asian settlers like Daniel Inouye have “helped Hawaiians.” It shows that Inouye, who has accrued an extraordinary amount of political power for himself as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, including the Subcommittee on Defense and Military Construction and the Subcommittee on Veteran Affairs, and of the Committee on Indian Affairs, is an institution backed by highly visible community organizations like the Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL). This chapter challenges Inouye and the JACL for their participation in a smear campaign against Native Hawaiian nationalist Mililani Trask, who had criticized Inouye's attempts to control the process for a self-determined sovereignty for Hawaiians.
Kerri A. Inglis
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834845
- eISBN:
- 9780824871383
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834845.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter considers the ways Hawaiians and those afflicted with the disease resisted the 1865 Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy and its application. At the same time the chapter reveals Western ...
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This chapter considers the ways Hawaiians and those afflicted with the disease resisted the 1865 Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy and its application. At the same time the chapter reveals Western anxieties about the disease. Native Hawaiians responded in a variety of ways to both the epidemic and to the Hawaiian Kingdom's response to it. While there was some accommodation and adaptation to the Board of Health policies, there was also resistance, which came in many forms and which was at times violent. Above all, these various reactions demonstrate that Native Hawaiians were not merely victims, but active participants in this disease experience that affected so many.Less
This chapter considers the ways Hawaiians and those afflicted with the disease resisted the 1865 Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy and its application. At the same time the chapter reveals Western anxieties about the disease. Native Hawaiians responded in a variety of ways to both the epidemic and to the Hawaiian Kingdom's response to it. While there was some accommodation and adaptation to the Board of Health policies, there was also resistance, which came in many forms and which was at times violent. Above all, these various reactions demonstrate that Native Hawaiians were not merely victims, but active participants in this disease experience that affected so many.
Stacy L. Kamehiro
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824832636
- eISBN:
- 9780824868864
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824832636.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter examines the coronation and regalia. The orchestration of Kalākaua's coronation in 1883 speaks to the relationship between power and spectacle and how these are integral to political ...
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This chapter examines the coronation and regalia. The orchestration of Kalākaua's coronation in 1883 speaks to the relationship between power and spectacle and how these are integral to political processes. The king and his advisers crafted a ritualized space and selected the coronation regalia, which, infused with the solemnity of the ceremonial, formed a signifying complex communicating the legitimacy of the Hawaiian leadership to local and foreign audiences. Facing increasingly overt and hostile threats to his administration by a predominantly haole opposition and questions regarding his genealogical claims to the throne posed by some of his Native constituency, Kalākaua integrated visual markers of Native Hawaiian chiefly leadership and Western authority to affirm the modernity of the Hawaiian nation and the legitimacy of its ruler and chiefly institutions.Less
This chapter examines the coronation and regalia. The orchestration of Kalākaua's coronation in 1883 speaks to the relationship between power and spectacle and how these are integral to political processes. The king and his advisers crafted a ritualized space and selected the coronation regalia, which, infused with the solemnity of the ceremonial, formed a signifying complex communicating the legitimacy of the Hawaiian leadership to local and foreign audiences. Facing increasingly overt and hostile threats to his administration by a predominantly haole opposition and questions regarding his genealogical claims to the throne posed by some of his Native constituency, Kalākaua integrated visual markers of Native Hawaiian chiefly leadership and Western authority to affirm the modernity of the Hawaiian nation and the legitimacy of its ruler and chiefly institutions.
Diana Looser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824839765
- eISBN:
- 9780824869564
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824839765.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter considers three works about Hawai‘i’s changing colonial landscape produced by a single dramatist, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. These works are drawn from two genres of historiographic ...
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This chapter considers three works about Hawai‘i’s changing colonial landscape produced by a single dramatist, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. These works are drawn from two genres of historiographic performance arising from her work as a playwright and museum educator: artistic “plays for the theatre” and more documentary “living history programs.” These include two plays dealing with early missionary contact and with incipient US statehood, as well as a major site-specific living history pageant about the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. While playing an important ethical and political role in the ongoing reassertion of Hawaiian culture, identity, and self-determination, Kneubuhl’s oeuvre also draws attention to art’s tangible social impact in the postcolonial Pacific.Less
This chapter considers three works about Hawai‘i’s changing colonial landscape produced by a single dramatist, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. These works are drawn from two genres of historiographic performance arising from her work as a playwright and museum educator: artistic “plays for the theatre” and more documentary “living history programs.” These include two plays dealing with early missionary contact and with incipient US statehood, as well as a major site-specific living history pageant about the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. While playing an important ethical and political role in the ongoing reassertion of Hawaiian culture, identity, and self-determination, Kneubuhl’s oeuvre also draws attention to art’s tangible social impact in the postcolonial Pacific.
David A. Chang
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816699414
- eISBN:
- 9781452954417
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816699414.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
The chapter looks at the Kanaka encounter with Christianity from the 1810s forward, and seeks to correct standard narratives of missionary endeavor. It centers Native Hawaiians’ active use of ...
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The chapter looks at the Kanaka encounter with Christianity from the 1810s forward, and seeks to correct standard narratives of missionary endeavor. It centers Native Hawaiians’ active use of Christianity and the to seek knowledge from the outside for Native Hawaiian purposes. It further contends that for Kānaka, exploring the outside world through Christianity meant reconnecting to other Pacific Islanders, not acquiescing to Western colonialism.Less
The chapter looks at the Kanaka encounter with Christianity from the 1810s forward, and seeks to correct standard narratives of missionary endeavor. It centers Native Hawaiians’ active use of Christianity and the to seek knowledge from the outside for Native Hawaiian purposes. It further contends that for Kānaka, exploring the outside world through Christianity meant reconnecting to other Pacific Islanders, not acquiescing to Western colonialism.
John Ryan Fischer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469625126
- eISBN:
- 9781469625140
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469625126.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
After the introduction of cattle to California and Hawai‘i, the establishment of the species depended on ecological resources and native responses. The second chapter examines the ecological changes ...
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After the introduction of cattle to California and Hawai‘i, the establishment of the species depended on ecological resources and native responses. The second chapter examines the ecological changes prompted by cattle and the effects of these changes on indigenous subsistence strategies. California Indians intensely managed the California environment in order to attain significant yields and sustain a large population through hunting and gathering. Hawaiians utilized plants and animals brought through Polynesian migration and trade, and they developed their own agricultural regimes to support a large organized population. Cattle grazed on Hawaiian crops and items gathered by California Indians, and they also facilitated the introduction of new species that competed with more familiar resources. Thus, cattle presented a clear challenge to native lifeways. At the same time, introduced diseases and military conflicts destabilized indigenous societies, exacerbating the effects of livestock introductions.Less
After the introduction of cattle to California and Hawai‘i, the establishment of the species depended on ecological resources and native responses. The second chapter examines the ecological changes prompted by cattle and the effects of these changes on indigenous subsistence strategies. California Indians intensely managed the California environment in order to attain significant yields and sustain a large population through hunting and gathering. Hawaiians utilized plants and animals brought through Polynesian migration and trade, and they developed their own agricultural regimes to support a large organized population. Cattle grazed on Hawaiian crops and items gathered by California Indians, and they also facilitated the introduction of new species that competed with more familiar resources. Thus, cattle presented a clear challenge to native lifeways. At the same time, introduced diseases and military conflicts destabilized indigenous societies, exacerbating the effects of livestock introductions.
Stacy L. Kamehiro
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824832636
- eISBN:
- 9780824868864
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824832636.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This book offers an account of Hawaiian public art and architecture during the reign of David Kalākaua, who ruled the Hawaiian Kingdom from 1874 to 1891. The book provides visual and historical ...
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This book offers an account of Hawaiian public art and architecture during the reign of David Kalākaua, who ruled the Hawaiian Kingdom from 1874 to 1891. The book provides visual and historical analysis of Kalākaua's coronation and regalia, the King Kamehameha Statue, ‘Iolani Palace, and the Hawaiian National Museum, drawing them together in a common historical, political, and cultural frame. These cultural projects were part of the monarchy's effort to promote a national culture in the face of colonial pressures, internal political divisions, and declining social conditions for Native Hawaiians. The book interprets the images, spaces, and institutions as articulations of the complex cultural entanglements and creative engagement with international communities that occur with prolonged colonial contact. Nineteenth-century Hawaiian sovereigns celebrated Native tradition, history, and modernity by intertwining indigenous conceptions of superior chiefly leadership with the apparati and symbols of Asian, American, and European rule. The resulting symbolic forms speak to cultural intersections and historical processes, claims about distinctiveness and commonality, and the power of objects, institutions, and public display to create meaning and enable action. The book pursues questions regarding the nature of cultural exchange, how precolonial visual culture engaged and shaped colonial contexts, and how colonial art informs postcolonial visualities and identities.Less
This book offers an account of Hawaiian public art and architecture during the reign of David Kalākaua, who ruled the Hawaiian Kingdom from 1874 to 1891. The book provides visual and historical analysis of Kalākaua's coronation and regalia, the King Kamehameha Statue, ‘Iolani Palace, and the Hawaiian National Museum, drawing them together in a common historical, political, and cultural frame. These cultural projects were part of the monarchy's effort to promote a national culture in the face of colonial pressures, internal political divisions, and declining social conditions for Native Hawaiians. The book interprets the images, spaces, and institutions as articulations of the complex cultural entanglements and creative engagement with international communities that occur with prolonged colonial contact. Nineteenth-century Hawaiian sovereigns celebrated Native tradition, history, and modernity by intertwining indigenous conceptions of superior chiefly leadership with the apparati and symbols of Asian, American, and European rule. The resulting symbolic forms speak to cultural intersections and historical processes, claims about distinctiveness and commonality, and the power of objects, institutions, and public display to create meaning and enable action. The book pursues questions regarding the nature of cultural exchange, how precolonial visual culture engaged and shaped colonial contexts, and how colonial art informs postcolonial visualities and identities.
Jonathan Y. Okamura
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780824869885
- eISBN:
- 9780824877859
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824869885.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter argues that ethnicity is the dominant organizing principle of social relations in Hawai‘i since the 1970s when it superseded race. This contention is based on the social construction of ...
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This chapter argues that ethnicity is the dominant organizing principle of social relations in Hawai‘i since the 1970s when it superseded race. This contention is based on the social construction of Hawaii’s constituent groups as ethnic groups rather than races, on the consequent lesser construction and assertion of racial categories and identities commonly invoked in the continental United States, and on the ongoing regulation of differential access to socioeconomic status by ethnicity and not race (or class). The chapter first discusses the conceptual difference between race and ethnicity, outlines the historical transition from race to ethnicity as the foremost structural principle of island society, reviews persisting ethnic inequality evident from 2010 U.S. Census data, and analyzes the racial dimensions of the shooting death in 2011 of a young Native Hawaiian by a U.S. State Department agent in Waikīkī. The argument that ethnicity is more significant than race as the primary principle of social organization in contemporary Hawai‘i is consistent with multiculturalism being the dominant ideology related to race and ethnicity in the islands rather than colorblindness as in the continental United States.Less
This chapter argues that ethnicity is the dominant organizing principle of social relations in Hawai‘i since the 1970s when it superseded race. This contention is based on the social construction of Hawaii’s constituent groups as ethnic groups rather than races, on the consequent lesser construction and assertion of racial categories and identities commonly invoked in the continental United States, and on the ongoing regulation of differential access to socioeconomic status by ethnicity and not race (or class). The chapter first discusses the conceptual difference between race and ethnicity, outlines the historical transition from race to ethnicity as the foremost structural principle of island society, reviews persisting ethnic inequality evident from 2010 U.S. Census data, and analyzes the racial dimensions of the shooting death in 2011 of a young Native Hawaiian by a U.S. State Department agent in Waikīkī. The argument that ethnicity is more significant than race as the primary principle of social organization in contemporary Hawai‘i is consistent with multiculturalism being the dominant ideology related to race and ethnicity in the islands rather than colorblindness as in the continental United States.
Karen K. Kosasa
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824830151
- eISBN:
- 9780824869243
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824830151.003.0011
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter asks the reader to consider the ways that settlers are involved in the colonization of Hawai‘i and Hawaiians through acts of erasure in the everyday lives and artistic practices of ...
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This chapter asks the reader to consider the ways that settlers are involved in the colonization of Hawai‘i and Hawaiians through acts of erasure in the everyday lives and artistic practices of Native Hawaiians. Such acts involve settlers' visual production of blankness—blank spaces “emptied” of Native peoples to be filled with settler visions of the American Dream. By using collaborative mixed-media projects with photographer Stan Tomita, the chapter engages in “strategies of exposure” that are “crucial exercises in remembering.” It emphasizes that as we question the ways that Asian settlers imagine their place on Native lands, we must critically reevaluate the stories they tell to construct a “multicultural Hawai‘i.”Less
This chapter asks the reader to consider the ways that settlers are involved in the colonization of Hawai‘i and Hawaiians through acts of erasure in the everyday lives and artistic practices of Native Hawaiians. Such acts involve settlers' visual production of blankness—blank spaces “emptied” of Native peoples to be filled with settler visions of the American Dream. By using collaborative mixed-media projects with photographer Stan Tomita, the chapter engages in “strategies of exposure” that are “crucial exercises in remembering.” It emphasizes that as we question the ways that Asian settlers imagine their place on Native lands, we must critically reevaluate the stories they tell to construct a “multicultural Hawai‘i.”
Carol Easley Allen and Cheryl E. Easley
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195171853
- eISBN:
- 9780199865352
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195171853.003.0003
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter describes the impact of social injustice on the health of racial and ethnic minorities, the roots and underlying issues of this social injustice, specific implications of social ...
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This chapter describes the impact of social injustice on the health of racial and ethnic minorities, the roots and underlying issues of this social injustice, specific implications of social injustice for racial and ethnic minorities, and an agenda of what needs to be done. This agenda includes ensuring cultural confidence among health professionals and institutions, increasing recruitment and retention of minority youth into health professions, attending to clear health communication to address health literacy problems, reducing poverty and addressing factors that create poverty, addressing racial discrimination, and performing research.Less
This chapter describes the impact of social injustice on the health of racial and ethnic minorities, the roots and underlying issues of this social injustice, specific implications of social injustice for racial and ethnic minorities, and an agenda of what needs to be done. This agenda includes ensuring cultural confidence among health professionals and institutions, increasing recruitment and retention of minority youth into health professions, attending to clear health communication to address health literacy problems, reducing poverty and addressing factors that create poverty, addressing racial discrimination, and performing research.
