Unsustainable Empire

Saranillio Dean Itsuji Saranillio

Description

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.

Sujets

• Histoire
• USA
• Hawái
• Indigenous peoples
• History of the Americas
• Hawaii
• États-Unis
• Hawaï

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781478002291
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 16 Mo

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UNSUSTAINABLE EMPIRE

UNSUSTAINABLE EMPIREALTERNATIVE HISTORIES HAWAI‘I OF STATEHOOD

DEAN ITSUJI SARANILLIO

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Saranillio, Dean Itsuji, [date] autor. Title: Unsustainable empire : alternative istories of Hawai‘i stateood / Dean Itsuji Saranillio. Description: Duram : Duke University Press, . | Includes bibliograpical references and index. Identifiers:   (print) |   (ebook)   (ebook)   (ardcover : alk. paper)   (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: : Hawaii—Politics and government—–. | Hawaii—Politics and government—– | Hawaii— History—–. | Hawaii—History—– | Stateood (American politics) | Hawaiians—Political activity. Classification:  . (ebook) |  . .s  (print) |  ./—dc  record available at ttps://lccn.loc.gov/

Frontispiece: “Stateood,” by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake ().

Cover art: Banners tat read “ ” wit military figter aircraft. Poto taken from inside te Hawai‘i State Capitol building, Marc , . Potograp courtesy of Jonatan Sisido.

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MoterEloise,FaterDick, Candace, Selley, and Drew

Tai, Kota, Devan, Seyne, Nanami, and Sora

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CONTENTS

ix  | “Stateood Sucks”

xxi 

  | Colliding Futures of Hawai‘i Stateood

   | A Future Wis: Hawai‘i at te  Cicago World’s Columbian Exposition

   | he Courage to Speak: Disrupting Haole Hegemony at te  Congressional Stateood Hearings

   | “Someting Indefinable Would Be Lost”: he Unruly Kamokila andGo for Broke!

   | he Propaganda of Occupation: Stateood and te Cold War

   | Alternative Futures beyond te Settler State

  | Scenes of Resurgence: Slow Violence and Slow Resistance

     

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PREFACE

St “ ateood Sucks”

he owner of a popular Facebook group, “We Grew Up on Maui,” posted a poto of a rusting green Cevrolet  . In keeping wit displaying one’s place-based relation to a larger island community via teir opes or concerns, te straigt-to-te-point bumper sticker read, “   .” he caption to te poto added: “Just appened to see tis bum- per sticker today—Stateood Day—wile I was eating breakfast in Kaului. #Ironic.” Suc irony is eigtened under conditions of occupation as most residents of Hawai‘i, and U.S. residents generally, view opposition to state- ood as contradictory and unexpected. Suc dissent is often dismissed as umorous and koloe, or “miscievous,” yet futile because stateood is imagined as not only aving been resolved back in  but permanently settled, te igest form of U.S. governance attainable—te pinnacle of settler civilization. Yet, lying quietly just beind tis dismissal is a well of discomfort. Suc discomfort migt serve as a space of learning, as Kanaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) istory and an ever-growing movement not only questions te very legitimacy of te United States in Hawai‘i, but impor- tantly offers culturally ric and istorically meaningful alternatives to te current system. As suc, “Stateood Day” or Admission Day becomes a state oliday tat enables most to grapple wit a major istorical contradic- tion for anyone wo as even moderately learned about Hawai‘i’s istory. his contradiction, owever, is not limited to Hawai‘i. he neat and tidy spatial geograpies of fifty U.S. states constrains imaginative space,