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Hawaiian Blood – Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity: Narrating Native Histories

Autor J. Kehaulani Kauanui
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 noi 2008
In 1921 the U.S. Congress officially defined “Native Hawaiians” as those people “with at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778.” This “blood logic” has since become an entrenched part of the Hawaiian legal system, determining access to land claims and tax exemptions. Blood quantum has also had a profound effect on cultural definitions of indigeneity, transforming notions of kinship and belonging among Native Hawaiians (Kanaka Maoli). Hawaiian Blood is an impassioned assessment of the far-reaching legal and cultural effects of the arbitrary correlation of blood and race imposed by the U.S. government on the indigenous peoples of Hawai‘i. J. Kehaulani Kauanui demonstrates how blood quantum, a system originally intended to restore land to Native Hawaiians, has in fact undermined Kanaka Maoli sovereignty claims and become an extension of U.S. imperial power in Hawai‘i. Within the framework of the fifty-percent rule, intermarriage “dilutes” the number of state-recognized Native Hawaiians. Rather than supporting Native claims to the Hawaiian islands, blood quantum reduces Hawaiians to a racial minority, reinforcing a system of white racial privilege bound to property ownership. Moreover, as Kauanui explains, the exclusionary logic of blood quantum runs counter to inclusive Kanaka Maoli genealogical and kinship practices. In Hawaiian Blood Kauanui provides the first comprehensive history and analysis of how a federal law equating Hawaiian cultural identity with a quantifiable amount of blood was created. She emphasizes the ongoing significance of blood quantum: Its criteria underlie recent court decisions regarding Hawaiian entitlements and new proposals for Hawaiians to gain status akin to tribal nations. Those proposals are subverting the Hawaiian sovereignty movement and bringing to the fore charged questions about who counts as Hawaiian.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822340799
ISBN-10: 0822340798
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 5 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 153 x 243 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria Narrating Native Histories


Cuprins

Acknowledgements; Rehabilitation; Blood Quantum; Thinking About Hawaiian Identity; A Note to ReadersIntroduction: Got Blood?; 1 Racialized Beneficiaries and Genealogical Descendants; 2 “Can you wonder that the Hawaiians did not get more?”: Historical Context for the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act; 3 Under the Guise of Hawaiian Rehabilitation; 4 “The Virile, Prolific, and Enterprising”: Part-Hawaiians and the Problem with Rehabilitation; 5 Limiting Hawaiians, Limiting the Bill: Rehabilitation Recoded; 6 Conclusion: Sovereignty Struggles and the Legacy of the 50% Rule Notes; Bibliography; Index

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"Appearing as one of the inaugural volumes in Duke University Press’s new ‘Narrating Native Histories’ series, Hawaiian blood is a triumph of scholarship from an emic perspective and a powerful indictment of the institutionalized form of racialism known as the ‘blood quantum’ as practised in the United States and especially in Hawaii....Kauanui’s is the first work to tie Hawaiian identity to land in this way, helping to provide a legal foundation for ongoing claims to Hawaiian sovereignty as described in her final chapters, and enabling Hawaiians and others to understand better the internal conflicts that have often divided the indigenous community. This highly important study of how natives think and why enriches and challenges us all." Kaori O’Connor, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
“Hawaiian Blood is an important work that addresses the racialization of Hawaiians in a way that no other work has done. J. Kehaulani Kauanui reveals how the 50-percent blood quantum continues to divide the Native Hawaiian community and how it is affecting current court decisions and legislation. These analyses are crucial for the Hawaiian community as it continues to move to define itself and to exercise self-determination and sovereignty.”--Noenoe K. Silva, author of Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
“Hawaiian Blood tells a fascinating and important story that has not received sufficient attention in the historical research on Hawai‘i nor in the work on indigenous peoples more generally. Well written, accessible to students, and sophisticated in its analysis, this book offers provocative new insights and theoretical perspectives on how we think about and use notions of race, blood, and belonging.”--Sally Engle Merry, author of Colonizing Hawai‘i: The Cultural Power of Law

"Appearing as one of the inaugural volumes in Duke University Press's new 'Narrating Native Histories' series, Hawaiian blood is a triumph of scholarship from an emic perspective and a powerful indictment of the institutionalized form of racialism known as the 'blood quantum' as practised in the United States and especially in Hawaii...Kauanui's is the first work to tie Hawaiian identity to land in this way, helping to provide a legal foundation for ongoing claims to Hawaiian sovereignty as described in her final chapters, and enabling Hawaiians and others to understand better the internal conflicts that have often divided the indigenous community. This highly important study of how natives think and why enriches and challenges us all." Kaori O'Connor, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "Hawaiian Blood is an important work that addresses the racialization of Hawaiians in a way that no other work has done. J. Kehaulani Kauanui reveals how the 50-percent blood quantum continues to divide the Native Hawaiian community and how it is affecting current court decisions and legislation. These analyses are crucial for the Hawaiian community as it continues to move to define itself and to exercise self-determination and sovereignty."--Noenoe K. Silva, author of Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism "Hawaiian Blood tells a fascinating and important story that has not received sufficient attention in the historical research on Hawai'i nor in the work on indigenous peoples more generally. Well written, accessible to students, and sophisticated in its analysis, this book offers provocative new insights and theoretical perspectives on how we think about and use notions of race, blood, and belonging."--Sally Engle Merry, author of Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law

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""Hawaiian Blood" tells a fascinating and important story that has not received sufficient attention in the historical research on Hawai'i nor in the work on indigenous peoples more generally. Well written, accessible to students and sophisticated in its analysis, this book offers provocative new insights and theoretical perspectives on how we think about and use notions of race, blood, and belonging."--Sally Engle Merry, author of" Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law"

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Study of the legal and cultural effects of the "fifty-percent blood quantum" rule first instituted in the 1920s