Hawaiian by Birth Colonialism in the Pacific, Bicultural Identity and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific

✍ Scribed by Joy Schulz

• Book ID: 100228281
• Publisher: UNP - Nebraska;University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 966 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1496202376

✦ Synopsis

Twelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American missionary families in the islands had birthed more than 250 white children, considered Hawaiian subjects by the indigenous monarchy and U.S. citizens by missionary parents. In Hawaiian by Birth Joy Schulz explores the tensions among the competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting these children and, in turn, the impact the children had on nineteenth-century U.S. foreign policy. These children of white missionaries would eventually alienate themselves from the Hawaiian monarchy and indigenous population by securing disproportionate economic and political power. Their childhoods--complicated by both Hawaiian and American influences--led to significant political and international ramifications once the children reached adulthood. Almost none chose to follow...