Hawaii Politics And Government
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Author |
: Roger Bell |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 460 |
Release |
: 2019-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780824879044 |
ISBN-13 |
: 082487904X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Last Among Equals by : Roger Bell
Last Among Equals is the first detailed account of Hawaii's quest for statehood. It is a story of struggle and accommodation, of how Hawaii was gradually absorbed into the politcal, economic, and ideological structures of American life. It also recounts the complex process that came into play when the states of the Union were confronted with the difficulty of granting admission to a non-contiguous territory with an overwhelmingly non-Caucasian population. More than any previous study of modern Hawaii, this book explains why Hawaii's legitimate claims to equality and autonomy as a state were frustrated for more than half a century. Last Among Equals is sure to remain a standard reference for modern Hawaiian and American political historians. As important, it will require a reevaluation of two commonly held myths: that of racial harmony in Hawaii and that of automatic equality under the Constitution of the United States.
Author |
: J. Kehaulani Kauanui |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2008-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822391494 |
ISBN-13 |
: 082239149X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hawaiian Blood by : J. Kehaulani Kauanui
In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those people “with at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778.” This “blood logic” has since become an entrenched part of the legal system in Hawai‘i. Hawaiian Blood is the first comprehensive history and analysis of this federal law that equates Hawaiian cultural identity with a quantifiable amount of blood. J. Kēhaulani Kauanui explains how blood quantum classification emerged as a way to undermine Native Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli) sovereignty. Within the framework of the 50-percent rule, intermarriage “dilutes” the number of state-recognized Native Hawaiians. Thus, rather than support Native claims to the Hawaiian islands, blood quantum reduces Hawaiians to a racial minority, reinforcing a system of white racial privilege bound to property ownership. Kauanui provides an impassioned assessment of how the arbitrary correlation of ancestry and race imposed by the U.S. government on the indigenous people of Hawai‘i has had far-reaching legal and cultural effects. With the HHCA, the federal government explicitly limited the number of Hawaiians included in land provisions, and it recast Hawaiians’ land claims in terms of colonial welfare rather than collective entitlement. Moreover, the exclusionary logic of blood quantum has profoundly affected cultural definitions of indigeneity by undermining more inclusive Kanaka Maoli notions of kinship and belonging. Kauanui also addresses the ongoing significance of the 50-percent rule: Its criteria underlie recent court decisions that have subverted the Hawaiian sovereignty movement and brought to the fore charged questions about who counts as Hawaiian.
Author |
: Perlita M. Frago-Marasigan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCBK:C112062952 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Comparative Politics and Government by : Perlita M. Frago-Marasigan
Author |
: Lorenz Gonschor |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2019-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780824880019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0824880013 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Power in the World by : Lorenz Gonschor
Few people today know that in the nineteenth century, Hawai‘i was not only an internationally recognized independent nation but played a crucial role in the entire Pacific region and left an important legacy throughout Oceania. As the first non-Western state to gain full recognition as a coequal of the Western powers, yet at the same time grounded in indigenous tradition and identity, the Hawaiian Kingdom occupied a unique position in the late nineteenth-century world order. From this position, Hawai‘i’s leaders were able to promote the building of independent states based on their country’s model throughout the Pacific, envisioning the region to become politically unified. Such a pan-Oceanian polity would be able to withstand foreign colonialism and become, in the words of one of the idea’s pioneers, “a Power in the World.” After being developed over three decades among both native and non-native intellectuals close to the Hawaiian court, King Kalākaua’s government started implementing this vision in 1887 by concluding a treaty of confederation with Sāmoa, a first step toward a larger Hawaiian-led pan-Oceanian federation. Political unrest and Western imperialist interference in both Hawai‘i and Sāmoa prevented the project from advancing further at the time, and a long interlude of colonialism and occupation has obscured its legacy for over a century. Nonetheless it remains an inspiring historical precedent for movements toward greater political and economic integration in the Pacific Islands region today. Lorenz Gonschor examines two intertwined historical processes: The development of a Hawai‘i-based pan-Oceanian policy and underlying ideology, which in turn provided the rationale for the second process, the spread of the Hawaiian Kingdom’s constitutional model to other Pacific archipelagos. He argues that the legacy of this visionary policy is today re-emerging in the form of two interconnected movements—namely a growing movement in Hawai‘i to reclaim its legacy as Oceania’s historically leading nation-state on one hand, and an increasingly assertive Oceanian regionalism emanating mainly from Fiji and other postcolonial states in the Southwestern Pacific on the other. As a historical reference for both, nineteenth-century Hawaiian policy serves as an inspiration and guideline for envisioning de-colonial futures for the Pacific region.
Author |
: J. Kehaulani Kauanui |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 2018-09-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822371960 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822371960 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty by : J. Kehaulani Kauanui
In Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty J. Kēhaulani Kauanui examines contradictions of indigeneity and self-determination in U.S. domestic policy and international law. She theorizes paradoxes in the laws themselves and in nationalist assertions of Hawaiian Kingdom restoration and demands for U.S. deoccupation, which echo colonialist models of governance. Kauanui argues that Hawaiian elites' approaches to reforming and regulating land, gender, and sexuality in the early nineteenth century that paved the way for sovereign recognition of the kingdom complicate contemporary nationalist activism today, which too often includes disavowing the indigeneity of the Kanaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiian) people. Problematizing the ways the positing of the Hawaiian Kingdom's continued existence has been accompanied by a denial of U.S. settler colonialism, Kauanui considers possibilities for a decolonial approach to Hawaiian sovereignty that would address the privatization and capitalist development of land and the ongoing legacy of the imposition of heteropatriarchal modes of social relations.
Author |
: Stephen Kinzer |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2007-02-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780805082401 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0805082409 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Overthrow by : Stephen Kinzer
An award-winning author tells the stories of the audacious American politicians, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers of other countries with disastrous long-term consequences.
Author |
: George Cooper |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105043263461 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Land and Power in Hawaii by : George Cooper
Describe a pervasive way of conducting private and public affairs in which state and local office holders throughout Hawaii took their personal financial interests into account in their actions as public.
Author |
: Paul D’Arcy |
Publisher |
: ANU Press |
Total Pages |
: 341 |
Release |
: 2018-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781760461744 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1760461741 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transforming Hawai‘i by : Paul D’Arcy
This study examines the role of coercion in the unification of the Hawaiian Islands by Kamehameha I between 1782 and 1812 at a time of increasing European contact. Three interrelated themes in Hawaiian political evolution are examined: the balance between coercion and consent; the balance between general structural trends and specific individual styles of leadership and historical events; and the balance between indigenous and European factors. The resulting synthesis is a radical reinterpretation of Hawaiian warfare that treats it as an evolving process heavily imbued with cultural meaning. Hawaiian history is also shown to be characterised by fluid changing circumstances, including crucial turning points when options were adopted that took elements of Hawaiian society on paths of development that proved decisive for political unification. These watershed moments were neither inevitable nor predictable. Perhaps the greatest omission in the standard discourse on the political evolution of Hawaiian society is the almost total exclusion of modern indigenous Hawaiian scholarship on this topic. Modern historians from the Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa argue that political leadership and socioeconomic organisation were much more concensus-based than is usually allowed for. Above all, this study finds modern indigenous Hawaiian studies a much better fit with the historical evidence than more conventional scholarship.
Author |
: Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2002-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0824825497 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780824825492 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dismembering Lahui by : Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio
Jonathan Osorio investigates the effects of Western law on the national identity of Native Hawaiians in this impressive political history of the Kingdom of Hawaii from the onset of constitutional government in 1840 to the Bayonet Constitution of 1887, which effectively placed political power in the kingdom in the hands of white businessmen. Making extensive use of legislative texts, contemporary newspapers, and important works by Hawaiian historians and others, Osorio plots the course of events that transformed Hawaii from a traditional subsistence economy to a modern nation, taking into account the many individuals nearly forgotten by history who wrestled with each new political and social change. A final poignant chapter links past events with the struggle for Hawaiian sovereignty today.
Author |
: Mark Jerome Walters |
Publisher |
: Island Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2012-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610911078 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610911075 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seeking the Sacred Raven by : Mark Jerome Walters
Will the 'Alala ever return to the wild? A bird sacred to Hawaiians and a member of the raven family, the 'Alala today survives only in captivity. How the species once flourished, how it has been driven to near-extinction, and how people struggled to save it, is the gripping story of Seeking the Sacred Raven. For years, author Mark Jerome Walters has tracked the sacred bird's role in Hawaiian culture and the indomitable 'Alala's sad decline. Trekking through Hawaii's rain forests high on Mauna Loa, talking with biologists, landowners, and government officials, he has woven an epic tale of missed opportunities and the best intentions gone awry. A species that once numbered in the thousands is now limited to about 50 captive birds. Seeking the Sacred Raven is as much about people and culture as it is about failed policies. From the ancient Polynesians who first settled the island, to Captain Cook in the 18th century, to would-be saviors of the 'Alala in the 1990s, individuals with conflicting passions and priorities have shaped Hawaii and the fate of this dwindling cloud-forest species. Walters captures brilliantly the internecine politics among private landowners, scientists, environmental groups, individuals and government agencies battling over the bird's habitat and protection. It's only one species, only one bird, but Seeking the Sacred Raven illustrates vividly the many dimensions of species loss, for the human as well as non-human world.