Hawai'i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific

Nitasha Tamar Sharma

Published by Duke University Press 2021

Hawai'i Is My Haven

Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific

Nitasha Tamar Sharma

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478021667

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About this book

Nitasha Tamar Sharma maps the context and contours of Black life in Hawaiʻi, showing how despite the presence of anti-Black racism, the state's Black residents consider it to be their haven from racism.

Author / Editor information

Nitasha Tamar Sharma is Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University, author of Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i.

Reviews

“Highlighting the place of Hawai‘i as a site for analyzing the most pressing cultural, political, and economic currents facing our world, Nitasha Tamar Sharma provides a unique and nuanced view into the complex flows of Islander life while creating new spaces for Black and multiracial voices that are all too frequently silenced. This much-needed work makes an important contribution to theorizing race and indigeneity together in American studies, ethnic studies, African American studies, and Native and Indigenous studies.”

-- Ty P. Kawika Tengan, author of Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i

“This is an elegantly written, trenchantly argued, and persuasively rendered ethnography of African Americans in Hawai‘i. It is simultaneously a landmark pointing the way to how the United States itself may evolve in the twenty-first century as it comes to resemble, racially and ethnically, the vibrant fiftieth state.”

-- Gerald Horne, author of The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Hawaiʻi Is My Haven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Over Two Centuries: The History of Black People in Hawaiʻi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
2. “Saltwater Negroes”: Black Locals, Multiracialism, and Expansive Blackness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
3. “Less Pressure”: Black Transplants, Settler Colonialism, and a Racial Lens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
4. Racism in Paradise: AntiBlack Racism and Resistance in Hawaiʻi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
5. Embodying Kuleana: Negotiating Black and Native Positionality in Hawaiʻi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Conclusion: Identity ↔ Politics ↔ Knowledge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 354

eBook

Published: August 2, 2021
ISBN: 9781478021667