Unsustainable empire : alternative histories of Hawaiʻi statehood / / Dean Itsuji Saranillio
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| Autore: |
Saranillio Dean Itsuji <1979->
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| Titolo: |
Unsustainable empire : alternative histories of Hawaiʻi statehood / / Dean Itsuji Saranillio
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 996.9/04 |
| Soggetto topico: | Statehood (American politics) |
| Hawaiians - Political activity | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Hawaii Politics and government 1900-1959 |
| Hawaii Politics and government 1959- | |
| Hawaii History 1900-1959 | |
| Hawaii History 1959- | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Unsustainable empire |
| ISBN: | 1-4780-9405-2 |
| 1-4780-0229-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910765435503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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