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Beyond Ethnicity : New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i by Camilla Fojas; Rudy P. Guevarra; Nitasha Tamar Sharma; Maile Arvin; Camilla Fojas; Rudy P. Guevarra; ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui; Roderick N. Labrador; Christopher Joseph Lopa; Jonathan Y. Okamura; Gary Y. Okihiro; Joakim Peter; John P. Rosa; Nitasha Tamar Sharma; Paul Spickard; Wayne Chung Tanaka; Aiko Yamashiro is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beyond Ethnicity : New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i about?
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 difference is celebrated as a sign of multicultural globalism that designates Hawai‘i as the crossroads of the Pacific. Racial inequality is disruptive to the tourist image of the islands. It ruptures the image of tolerance, diversity, and happiness upon which tourism, business, and so many other vested transnational interests in the islands are based. The contributors of this interdisciplinary volume reconsider Hawai‘i as a model of ethnic and multiracial harmony through the lens of race in their analysis of historical events, group relations and individual experiences, and humor, among other focal points. Beyond Ethnicity examines the dynamics between race, ethnicity, and indigeneity to challenge the primacy of ethnicity and cultural practices for examining difference in Hawai‘i while recognizing the significant role of settler colonialism. This original and thought-provoking volume reveals what a
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- Author
- Camilla Fojas; Rudy P. Guevarra; Nitasha Tamar Sharma; Maile Arvin; Camilla Fojas; Rudy P. Guevarra; ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui; Roderick N. Labrador; Christopher Joseph Lopa; Jonathan Y. Okamura; Gary Y. Okihiro; Joakim Peter; John P. Rosa; Nitasha Tamar Sharma; Paul Spickard; Wayne Chung Tanaka; Aiko Yamashiro
- Publisher
- University of Hawaiʻi Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780824873523
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Political Science
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