Unsustainable Empire

Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood

Dean Itsuji Saranillio (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0083-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Dean Itsuji Saranillio is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.

Preface. "Statehood Sucks" ix
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction. Colliding Futures of Hawai‘i Statehood 1
1. A Future Wish: Hawai‘i at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition 31
2. The Courage to Speak: Disrupting Haole Hegemony at the 1937 Congressional Statehood Hearings 67
3. "Something Indefinable Would Be Lost": The Unruly Kamokila and Go for Broke! 99
4. The Propaganda of Occupation: Statehood and the Cold War 131
5. Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State 171
Conclusion. Scenes of Resurgence: Slow Violence and Slow Resistance 197
Notes 211
Bibliography 245
Index 267

Erscheinungsdatum	09.11.2018
Zusatzinfo	27 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0083-X / 147800083X
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0083-9 / 9781478000839
Zustand	Neuware