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- Possessing Polynesians : The Science of Settler Colonial Whitenes
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
1478006331
ISBN-13
9781478006336
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25038762409
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Possessing Polynesians : the Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawaii and Oceania
Publication Year
2019
Subject
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
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0.6 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Scholarly & Professional
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Possessing Polynesians disrupts what is considered as colonial 'common sense' notions and moves forward to redefine what comprises genealogy, heritage, race, and traditions. The work has real applications for academia as well as the Native Hawaiian community., Possessing Polynesians argues powerfully about the ways Polynesia and Polynesian peoples are claimed as contingently white, tracking the unsettled convergences of processes of racialization and imperial and colonial regimes writ large.... Asian American studies would benefit greatly from Arvin's careful examination of asymmetrical and complicated multidirectional relationalities., Possessing Polynesians is a captivating read that casts science of times-past as (unfortunately) science of times-present. Scholars positioned within settler colonialism, Pacifc studies, critical race studies, and women and gender studies will find the analysis in this book useful in contextualizing their own work and in signaling further pathways of research on which to embark. In showing how inclusion--as opposed to exclusion--can result in discursive and material violence, Arvin's book is also of use to scholars who do work on multiculturalism and recognition., Possessing Polynesians is a fascinating read to understand how settler science has historically been utilized to discredit Indigenous claims to land and body sovereignty. ... [A] must-read text for individuals interested in understanding an Indigenous feminist framework and its importance to the growing field of critical Indigenous studies., Arvin's Possessing Polynesians ... provides a clear and compelling discussion of the whiteness logic from chapter to chapter. Those interested in settler colonialism, Hawaiian history, and race discourse in Oceania would find this book appealing to read., Possessing Polynesians by Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) historian and gender studies scholar Maile Arvin, provides an exceptionally sharp critique of settler colonialism in and of Polynesia, from the nineteenth century to the present. This is a scholarly work that is well researched, structured, and written, and that is particularly strong in its meticulous attention to, and analysis of, a diverse set of empirical material, including eugenic scientific texts, parliamentary debates, and Pacific artwork.... For Pacific Island scholars, this book will no doubt become a seminal scholarly work. It will also be of interest to anthropologists and sociologists, as it reviews troubling legacies that still reverberate in these disciplines., In this outstanding book, Maile Arvin brings fresh light and new depth to the scholarship on racial discourse, eugenics, and colonialism through a study of how they operated in Hawai'i. This intriguing new work brings science studies together with the analysis of visual culture and unites cultural history with contemporary political engagements. She pairs sophisticated readings of colonialist racial discourse with close attention to the political and artistic production of Native Hawaiians who have resisted that discourse. The result is an engaging and important book, and all who are concerned with race, empire, colonialism, and Hawaiian studies will find much to consider in it., This engaging, provocative, and insightful book accomplishes that rare feat of taking the reader down a familiar pathway of social science debates around the 'Polynesian race' while recasting them through a new lens of gendered and racialized settler colonial logics of possession. Elegantly disentangling the knot of indigeneity, race, and gender in the Pacific, Maile Arvin has produced a clear genealogy of science in the history of Indigenous dispossession., Possessing Polynesians is an excellent book.... I can only expect that Arvin will continue to be a critical voice in developing conversations about belonging, immigration, and indigeneity.
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Ix Introduction: Polynesia Is a Project, Not a Place 1 Part I. The Polynesian Problem: Scientific Production of the "Almost White" Polynesian Race 35 1. Heirlooms of the Aryan Race: Nineteenth-Century Studies of Polynesian Origins 43 2. Conditionally Caucasian: Polynesian Racial Classification in Early Twentieth-Century Eugenics and Physical Anthropology 67 3. hating Hawaiians, Celebrating Hybrid Hawaiian Girls: Sociology and the Fictions of Racial Mixture 96 Part II. Regenerative Refusals: Confronting Contemporary Legacies of the Polynesian Problem in Hawai'i and Oceania 125 4. Still in the Blood: Blood Quantum and Self-Determination in Day v. Apoliona and Federal Recognition 135 5. The Value of Polynesian DNA: Genomic Solutions to the Polynesian Problems 168 6. Regenerating Indigeneity: Challenging Possessive Whiteness in Contemporary Pacific Art 195 Conclusion. Regenerating an Oceanic Future in Indigenous Space-Time 224 Notes 241 Bibliography 279 Index
Synopsis
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polynesians Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia, especially in Hawai'i. Arvin argues that a logic of possession through whiteness animates settler colonialism, by which both Polynesia (the place) and Polynesians (the people) become exotic, feminized belongings of whiteness. Seeing whiteness as indigenous to Polynesia provided white settlers with the justification needed to claim Polynesian lands and resources. Understood as possessions, Polynesians were and continue to be denied the privileges of whiteness. Yet Polynesians have long contested these classifications, claims, and cultural representations, and Arvin shows how their resistance to and refusal of white settler logic have regenerated Indigenous forms of recognition., Maile Arvin analyzes the history of racialization of Polynesians within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia, especially in Hawai?i, arguing that a logic of possession through whiteness animates European and Hawaiian settler colonialism.
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