03245oam 2200541I 450 991076543550332120181012042704.01-4780-9405-21-4780-0229-810.1515/9781478002291(CKB)4100000007123195(MiAaPQ)EBC55748811056712751(DE-B1597)553421(DE-B1597)9781478002291(OCoLC)1115062461(Au-PeEL)EBL5574881(OCoLC)1039427697(EXLCZ)99410000000712319520181012d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUnsustainable empire alternative histories of Hawaiʻi statehood /Dean Itsuji SaranillioDurham :Duke University Press,2018.1 online resource (313 pages)1-4780-0062-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.A future wish : Hawaiʻi at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition -- The courage to speak : disrupting haole hegemony at the 1937 congressional statehood hearings -- "Something indefinable would be lost" : the unruly kamokila and go for broke! -- The propaganda of occupation : statehood and the Cold War -- Alternative futures beyond the settler state.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.Statehood (American politics)HawaiiansPolitical activityHawaiiPolitics and government1900-1959HawaiiPolitics and government1959-HawaiiHistory1900-1959HawaiiHistory1959-Statehood (American politics)HawaiiansPolitical activity.996.9/04Saranillio Dean Itsuji1979-1450419NDDNDDBOOK9910765435503321Unsustainable empire3649638UNINA