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Hawai'i Is My Haven : Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific

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Hawaiʻi Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised Black locals and Black transplants who moved to the Islands from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Nitasha Tamar Sharma highli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharma, Nitasha Tamar (Author)
Corporate Author: Duke University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Hawaiʻi Is My Haven
  • 1. Over Two Centuries: The History of Black People in Hawaiʻi
  • 2. "Saltwater Negroes": Black Locals, Multiracialism, and Expansive Blackness
  • 3. "Less Pressure": Black Transplants, Settler Colonialism, and a Racial Lens
  • 4. Racism in Paradise: AntiBlack Racism and Resistance in Hawaiʻi
  • 5. Embodying Kuleana: Negotiating Black and Native Positionality in Hawaiʻi
  • Conclusion: Identity and#x2194; Politics and#x2194; Knowledge
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index