Indigeneity, Race and Ethnic Relations in Hawaii

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Examines Native Hawaiian history, culture and worldviews prior to contact with Europe and the United States. Using colonialism, race and racism as the analytical lens, provides a deeper understanding to how racial ideologies and colonialism impacted the cultural, economic, political, environmental and social well-being of the island's indigenous population; the predominately nonwhite immigrant groups that were recruited to work in Hawaii's agricultural industries; the various institutions (e.g., tourism and the military) that continue to maintain structures of inequality and oppression of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) and other racial and ethnic groups on the islands; and the ways Native Hawaiians and locals in Hawaii have resisted these efforts.