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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yao, Xine

Titel

Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania by Maile Arvin

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Asian American Studies, 2021-06, Vol.24 (2), p.337-340

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The conference included the celebration of legendary activist-scholar Haunani-Kay Trask, who received the Angela Y. Davis Prize, as well as panels featuring the kia’i (guardians) defending Mauna Kea against the threat of the Thirty Meter Telescope. Chapter 4 tracks the invasion of blood quantum laws into the legal definition of Native Hawaiianness, which provokes both regenerative refusals and divisive tactics in the name of independence with fraught relationships to Alaska Natives and Native Americans. The rise of genomic mapping that fetishizes the Hawaiian genome as the property of global humanity returns in chapter 5 to the Native Hawaiian woman as symbol of a raceless future; however, Arvin highlights the responses of Hawaiian Civic Clubs and the NHIPRC to protect collective cultural property and rework ideas of humanity and land according to Hawaiian epistemology.