Beyond Ethnicity : : New Politics of Race in Hawai'i / / ed. by Rudy P. Guevarra, Camilla Fojas, Nitasha Tamar Sharma.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Arvin, Maile,; Fojas, Camilla,; Guevarra, Rudy P.,; Labrador, Roderick N.,; Lopa, Christopher Joseph,; Okamura, Jonathan Y.,; Okihiro, Gary Y.,; Peter, Joakim,; Rosa, John P.,; Sharma, Nitasha Tamar,; Spickard, Paul,; Tanaka, Wayne Chung,; Yamashiro, Aiko,
• TeilnehmendeR: Arvin, Maile.; Fojas, Camilla.; Guevarra, Rudy P.; Labrador, Roderick N.; Lopa, Christopher Joseph.; Okamura, Jonathan Y.; Okihiro, Gary Y.; Peter, Joakim.; Rosa, John P.; Sharma, Nitasha Tamar.; Spickard, Paul.; Tanaka, Wayne Chung.; Yamashiro, Aiko.; ho'omanawanui, ku'ualoha.
• HerausgeberIn: Fojas, Camilla,; Guevarra, Rudy P.,; Sharma, Nitasha Tamar,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1 b&w illustration

Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai'i's myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai'i is understood. Instead, ethnic d...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: New Politics of Race in Hawai'i
• E Micronesia
• Chapter 1. Polynesia Is a Project, Not a Place: Polynesian Proximities to Whiteness in Cloud Atlas and Beyond
• Chapter 2. Mixed-Race Hollywood, Hawaiian Style
• Chapter 3. "I no eat dog, k"
• Chapter 4. "Eh! Where you from?"
• Chapter 5. Race and/or Ethnicity in Hawai'i
• Chapter 6. The Racial Imperative
• Chapter 7. Local Boy, East Coast Sensibilities
• Chapter 8. "Latino Threat in the 808?"
• Chapter 9. Local Haole?
• Chapter 10. Reconnecting Our Roots
• Afterword: Hawai'i Matters
• Contributors
• Index