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Book SynopsisThis book describes racist rule in Hawai'i during the first half of the twentieth century and how statehood made possible a fundamental transformation. Based on a multicultural ethos, top political power shifted from Whites to Japanese and later to other racial groups. Racism was eliminated in the economy, environmental policies were modified, government operations became more multicultural, and the desires of Native Hawaiians to recover what had been lost from the days of the Kingdom of Hawai?i were placed on legal and political agendas.Even before statehood, Hawai?i's example of school integration gave birth to the movement resulting in Brown v Board of Education. Afterward, the Aloha State was the first to adopt many reforms: unrestricted abortion, universal health care insurance, an Equal Rights Amendment, a State Ombudsman, neighborhood boards, classifying Whites as a minority in affirmative action, banning strip searches of females, and dozens of other innovative reforms that hav
Trade ReviewSince Hawaii gained statehood in 1959 its five constituent minorities have dismantled the barriers that impeded equal human rights in most social, political, and economic spheres of life. Michael Haas draws on in-depth knowledge gained through his half-century of residence and research to analyze the multicultural Aloha norms and the instruments of change that have made Hawaiians the healthiest and happiest citizens of the 50 states, and their society a model for racial harmony. -- Ted Robert Gurr, Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Maryland, College Park. He designed and directed the 25-year global survey of 300 Minorities at Risk.
Table of Contents1 Mission and Achievements 2 A Kingdom Falls 3 Territorial Traumas 4 Wartime Heroism 5 The Struggle for Statehood 6 Cultural Transformation 7 Overcoming Political Racism 8 Overcoming Economic Racism 9 Overcoming Racism in Environmental Policy 10 Dismantling Institutional Discrimination 11 Decolonization and Renaissance 12 A Model for the World
