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  • Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President

    Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President ABC-CLIO Praeger September 2011 276 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-313-38533-9 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-313-38534-6 Dinesh Sharma, Senior Fellow Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research St. Francis College, New York Distinguishing itself from the mass of political biographies of Barack Obama,…

  • Race Mixture in Hawaii

    Race Mixture in Hawaii Journal of Heredity Volume 10, Issue 1 (1919) pages 41-47 Vaughan MacCaughey College of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii THE CHINESE The   Hawaiian Islands   arc remarkable for the diversity of  races represented and for the varied conjugal race-mingling which has taken place in this tiny island world during the past hundred and fifty…

  • Interracial Marriage and Admixture in Hawaii

    Interracial Marriage and Admixture in Hawaii Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 17, Issue 4 (1970) pages 278-291 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1970.9987885 Clarence E. Glick, Professor of Sociology University of Hawaii Michener’s phrase “the golden men of Hawaii” reflects a popular romantic interest in the blending of ethnic elements that has been going on in Hawaii for almost…

  • The Hybrid in Hawaii as a Marginal Man

    The Hybrid in Hawaii as a Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 39, Number 4 (January 1934) pages 459-468 William C. Smith William Jewell College Several factors conspire to make the hybrid in Hawaii occupy a position markedly different from that of the mixed-blood in other areas. The relative absence of race prejudice on the…

  • Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian America and Hawai’i

    Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian America and Hawai’i Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2  (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 133-153 DOI: 110.1080/0031322X.2011.563159 Jonathan Y. Okamura, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of Hawai’i Okamura reviews the 2008 US presidential campaign and the election of Barack Obama…

  • Hawaii is older, more racially mixed, census shows

    Hawaii is older, more racially mixed, census shows Honolulu Star Advertiser 2011-05-19 Michael Tsai According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest demographic profile of the state, Hawaii is looking a little older, a tad whiter, perhaps a bit lonelier. The bureau is scheduled to release today detailed demographic information collected last year in Hawaii and…

  • Census Bureau Reports Final 2010 Census Data for the United States

    The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that 2010 Census population totals and demographic characteristics have been released for communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These data have provided the first look at population counts for small areas and race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing unit data released from…

  • More Hawaii residents identify as mixed race

    More Hawaii residents identify as mixed race USA Today 2011-02-24 William M. Welch Hawaii, the nation’s most ethnically diverse state, has seen a big increase in residents identifying themselves as being of mixed race, according to Census data released Thursday. Among adults 18 and older, those saying they are of two or more races rose…

  • The Hapa Project: How multiracial identity crosses oceans

    The Hapa Project: How multiracial identity crosses oceans UH Today University of Hawai`i Spring 2007 Alana Folen and Tina Ng Hawai`i—often overlooked as nothing more than a scenic paradise—recently started to live up to its “melting pot” reputation when a U.S. senator representing Illinois formally announced his presidential candidacy. With personal ties to Hawai`i, Sen.…

  • “A Fascinating Interracial Experiment Station”: Remapping the Orient-Occident Divide in Hawai’i

    “A Fascinating Interracial Experiment Station”: Remapping the Orient-Occident Divide in Hawai’i American Studies Volume 49, Number 3/4, Fall/Winter 2008 pages 87-109 E-ISSN: 2153-6856 Print ISSN: 0026-3079 Shelley Sang-Hee Lee, Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies and History Oberlin College Rick Baldoz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Oberlin College Introduction During the 1920s and 1930s, American…