LEADER 03245oam 2200541I 450 001 9910765435503321 005 20181012042704.0 010 $a1-4780-9405-2 010 $a1-4780-0229-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781478002291 035 $a(CKB)4100000007123195 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5574881 035 $a1056712751 035 $a(DE-B1597)553421 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781478002291 035 $a(OCoLC)1115062461 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5574881 035 $a(OCoLC)1039427697 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007123195 100 $a20181012d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUnsustainable empire $ealternative histories of Hawai?i statehood /$fDean Itsuji Saranillio 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (313 pages) 311 $a1-4780-0062-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA future wish : Hawai?i 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aStatehood (American politics) 606 $aHawaiians$xPolitical activity 607 $aHawaii$xPolitics and government$y1900-1959 607 $aHawaii$xPolitics and government$y1959- 607 $aHawaii$xHistory$y1900-1959 607 $aHawaii$xHistory$y1959- 615 0$aStatehood (American politics) 615 0$aHawaiians$xPolitical activity. 676 $a996.9/04 700 $aSaranillio$b Dean Itsuji$f1979-$01450419 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910765435503321 996 $aUnsustainable empire$93649638 997 $aUNINA