Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania

✍ Scribed by Maile Renee Arvin

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 328
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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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