Unsustainable empire : alternative histories of Hawaiʻi statehood / Dean Itsuji Saranillio.
"In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawaiʻi's admission as a U.S. state. Hawaiʻi statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawaiʻi was undeserving of statehood because it was...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawaiʻi's admission as a U.S. state. Hawaiʻi statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawaiʻi was undeserving of statehood because it was a largely nonwhite 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 Hawaiʻi'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 Hawaiʻi's admission as the fiftieth state and why Native Hawaiian place-based alternatives to U.S. empire are urgently needed"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 282 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |