{"product_id":"hawaii-is-my-haven-9781478014379","title":"Hawaii Is My Haven","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNitasha Tamar Sharma maps the context and contours of Black life in Hawai?i, showing how despite the presence of anti-Black racism, the state's Black residents consider it to be their haven from racism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Highlighting the place of Hawai‘i as a site for analyzing the most pressing cultural, political, and economic currents facing our world, Nitasha Tamar Sharma provides a unique and nuanced view into the complex flows of Islander life while creating new spaces for Black and multiracial voices that are all too frequently silenced. This much-needed work makes an important contribution to theorizing race and indigeneity together in American studies, ethnic studies, African American studies, and Native and Indigenous studies.” -- Ty P. Kawika Tengan, author of * Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i *\u003cbr\u003e“This is an elegantly written, trenchantly argued, and persuasively rendered ethnography of African Americans in Hawai‘i. It is simultaneously a landmark pointing the way to how the United States itself may evolve in the twenty-first century as it comes to resemble, racially and ethnically, the vibrant fiftieth state.” -- Gerald Horne, author of * The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHawaiʻi Is My Haven\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious and original work of scholarship. By focusing on an oft-overlooked demographic, it creates a fuller, more accurate picture of Hawaii’s history.\" -- Eric Stinton * Honolulu Civil Beat *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book will be of interest to scholars of Pacific settlement histories, transnational and ethnocultural identities, colonialism, and indigenous activism. For those teaching Pacific studies courses, this volume adds a new dimension to Hawaiian histories of migration, settler colonization, and multiculturalism, as well as current alignments in social justice movements.\" -- Michelle Ladwig Williams * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an interesting and important work for scholars in the fields [of Native and Indigenous studies, mixed-race\u003cbr\u003e studies, African American studies, American studies, and ethnic studies.] But for Hawaiian scholars and\/or activists invested in a more pono future for Hawai‘i, this book is required reading.\" -- Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada * Native American and Indigenous Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Hawaiʻi Is My Haven  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Over Two Centuries: The History of Black People in Hawaiʻi  37\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Saltwater Negroes\": Black Locals, Multiracialism, and Expansive Blackness  71\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"Less Pressure\": Black Transplants, Settler Colonialism, and a Racial Lens  120\u003cbr\u003e 4. Racism in Paradise: AntiBlack Racism and Resistance in Hawaiʻi 166\u003cbr\u003e 5. Embodying Kuleana: Negotiating Black and Native Positionality in Hawaiʻi  217\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Identity↔Politics↔Knowledge  261\u003cbr\u003e Notes  279\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  305\u003cbr\u003e Index  331","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408995787095,"sku":"9781478014379","price":20.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478014379.jpg?v=1730505015","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hawaii-is-my-haven-9781478014379","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}