Gateway State : : Hawai'i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire / / Sarah Miller-Davenport.
How Hawai'i became an emblem of multiculturalism during its journey to statehood in the mid-twentieth centuryGateway State explores the development of Hawai'i as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of decolonization. The establishment of Hawa...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 21 b/w illus. 1 table. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 "The Picture Window of the Pacific": American Foreign Policy and the Remaking of Racial Difference in the Campaign for Hawai'i Statehood
- 2. Through the Looking Glass: Hawai'i and the Problem of Race in Postwar American Culture
- 3. The Power of Mutual Understanding: Teaching "New Modes of Life" in the New Frontier
- 4. Selling the "Golden People": Hawai'i Tourism and the Commodification of Racial Tolerance
- 5. Delicious Adventures and Multicolored Pantsuits: Gender and Cosmopolitan Selfhood in the Selling of Hawai'i
- 6. The Third World in the Fiftieth State: Ethnic Studies in Hawai'i and the Challenge to Liberal Multiculturalism
- Epilogue: Legacies of 1959: Multiculturalism and Colonialism in the "Decolonized" State
- Appendix
- Notes
- Sources
- Index