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Unsustainable Empire
Dean Itsuji Saranillio
其他書名
Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood
出版
Duke University Press
, 2018-11-15
主題
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies
History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Social Science / Indigenous Studies
ISBN
1478002298
9781478002291
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zBJ2DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.