Hawaiian blood colonialism and the politics of sovereignty and indigeneity

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kauanui, J. Kehaulani, 1968- (-)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press 2008.
Series:Narrating native histories.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009785332406719
Table of Contents:
  • Racialized beneficiaries and genealogical descendants
  • "Can you wonder that the Hawaiians did not get more?" : historical context for the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act
  • Under the guise of Hawaiian rehabilitation
  • The virile, prolific, and enterprising : part-Hawaiians and the problem with rehabilitation
  • Limiting Hawaiians, limiting the bill : rehabilitation recoded
  • Sovereignty struggles and the legacy of the 50-percent rule.