J Kehaulani Kauanui

Hawaiian Blood

Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Study of the legal and cultural effects of the "fifty-percent blood quantum" rule which was first instituted in the 1920s to define who counted as a native Hawaiian and which has continuing influence on legislation and on the Hawaiian sovereignt

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340584
• ISBN-10: 0822340585
• Artikelnr.: 23880627

Autorenporträt

J. Kauanui Kahaulani

Inhaltsangabe

A Note to Readers xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Got Blood? 1
1. Racialized Beneficiaries and Genealogical Descendants 37
2. "Can you wonder that the Hawaiians did not get more?" Historical Context
for the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act 67
3. Under the Guise of Hawaiian Rehabilitation 99
4. The Virile, Prolific, and Enterprising: Part-Hawaiians and the Problem
with Rehabilitation 121
5. Limiting Hawaiians, Limiting the Bill: Rehabilitation Recoded 145
6. Sovereignty Struggles and the Legacy of the 50-Percent Rule 171
Notes 197
Bibliography 211
Index 229