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  • University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Special Research Collection

    G. Reginald Daniel, UCSB Professor of Sociology and member of the Advisory Board of MASC (Multiracial Americans of Southern California), and Paul Spickard, UCSB Professor of History, in coordination with Danelle Moon, Head of UCSB Library Special Research Collection, have been collecting primary documents from support and educational organizations involved in the multiracial movement, particularly…

  • Nitasha Tamar Sharma: Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific

    Nitasha Tamar Sharma: Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific New Books Network 2022-03-30 Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (Duke UP, 2021) maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised…

  • Eric Stinton: It’s Time To Recognize That Black History Is Part Of Hawaii’s History

    Eric Stinton: It’s Time To Recognize That Black History Is Part Of Hawaii’s History Honolulu Civic Beat Honolulu, Hawaii 2022-02-07 Eric Stinton Nitasha Tamar Sharma Nitasha Tamar Sharma attempts to clarify misconceptions and challenges common assumptions about race in Hawaii in her book “Hawaiʻi Is My Haven.” On the cover of Nitasha Tamar Sharma’s recent…

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

    “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.

  • No mass protests after Honolulu police shoot, kill Black man

    Honolulu police shot and killed Lindani Myeni, a Black man, three months after he moved to Hawaii with his wife, believing it would be safer place to raise their two Black children

  • Shadow Child

    Shadow Child Grand Central Publishing 2018-05-08 352 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781538711453 eBook ISBN-13: 9781538711446 Rahna Reiko Rizzuto For fans of Tayari Jones and Ruth Ozeki, from National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Rizzuto comes a haunting and suspenseful literary tale set in 1970s New York City and World War II-era Japan, about three strong women,…

  • Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania

    From their earliest encounters with indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be, racially, almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In “Possessing Polynesians” Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia,…

  • Shadow Child, A Novel

    For fans of Tayari Jones and Ruth Ozeki, from National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Rizzuto comes a haunting and suspenseful literary tale set in 1970s New York City and World War II-era Japan, about three strong women, the dangerous ties of family and identity, and the long shadow our histories can cast.

  • Assessing Multiracial Ethnic Identity Status and Mental Health in Hawaiʻi

    The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the relationship between ethnic and racial identity and mental health across the lifespan in Hawaiʻi

  • Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii

    The “aloha spirit” may hold a deep lesson for all of us.