Tag: Hawaiʻi

  • Legacy of the President’s Mother Mālamalama, The Magazine of the University of Hawaiʻi System January 2009 (2009-01-14) Paula Bender Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Stanley Ann Dunham The candidacy and election of President Barack Obama drew international eyes to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where his parents met. But among some at the university, it is Obama’s…

  • DANCE/CHANGE: The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler and Indigenous Performance University of California, Riverside 900 University Avenue Riverside, California 92521 Athletics & Dance Building Dance Studio Theatre, ATHD 102 Tuesday, 2014-10-21, 16:10-18-00 PDT (Local Time) Maile Arvin, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Ethnic Studies University of California, Riverside The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler…

  • Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society June 2014 (2014-06-02) Maile Arvin, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Riverside I confess: I avoided watching the 2011 Oscar award-winning movie The Descendants (directed by the acclaimed Alexander Payne of Sideways and Nebraska, starring George Clooney) for…

  • Pacifically Possessed: Scientific Production and Native Hawaiian Critique of the “Almost White” Polynesian Race University of California, San Diego 2013 320 pages Maile Renee Arvin A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Ethnic Studies This dissertation analyzes how scientific knowledge has represented the Polynesian race as…