Staking Claim: Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai'i (Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies) - Hardcover

Rohrer, Judy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081650251X ISBN 13: 9780816502516

Publisher: University of Arizona Press, 2016

Synopsis

In the heart of the Pacific Ocean, Hawai'i exists at a global crosscurrent of indigeneity and race, homeland and diaspora, nation and globalization, sovereignty and imperialism. In order to better understand how settler colonialism works and thus move decolonization efforts forward, Staking Claim analyzes competing claims of identity, belonging, and political status in Hawai'i.

Author Judy Rohrer brings together an analysis of racial formation and colonization in the islands through a study of legal cases, contemporary public discourse (local media and literature), and Hawai'i scholarship. Her analysis exposes how racialization works to obscure―with the ultimate goal of eliminating―native Hawaiian indigeneity, homeland, nation, and sovereignty.

Staking Claim argues that the dual settler colonial processes of racializing native Hawaiians (erasing their indigeneity), and indigenizing non-Hawaiians, enable the staking of non-Hawaiian claims to Hawai'i. It encourages us to think beyond a settler-native binary by analyzing the ways racializations of Hawaiians and various non-Hawaiian settlers and arrivants bolster settler colonial claims, structures, and white supremacist ideologies.

About this title

About the Author

Judy Rohrer grew up in Hawai‘i and earned her PhD in political science from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Rohrer is the director of the Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility at Western Kentucky University. She is the author of Haoles in Hawai‘i.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081650251X
• ISBN 13: 9780816502516
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288