| Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood Contributor(s): Saranillio, Dean Itsuji (Author) |
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ISBN: 1478000627 ISBN-13: 9781478000624 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $102.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Social Science | Indigenous Studies - Political Science | American Government - State |
| Dewey: 996.904 |
| LCCN: 2018021934 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.14 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Hawaii - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher 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. |