{"id":37608,"date":"2014-10-05T21:53:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T21:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37608"},"modified":"2015-09-16T18:07:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T18:07:24","slug":"dancechange-the-mixed-race-polynesian-body-in-settler-and-indigenous-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37608","title":{"rendered":"DANCE\/CHANGE: The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler and Indigenous Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/cgi-bin\/display.cgi?comp_id=41982:20141021161000\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>DANCE\/CHANGE: The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler and Indigenous Performance<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of California, Riverside<br \/>\n900 University Avenue<br \/>\nRiverside, California 92521<br \/>\nAthletics &amp; Dance Building Dance Studio Theatre, ATHD 102<br \/>\nTuesday, 2014-10-21, 16:10-18-00 PDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/arvin\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maile Arvin<\/strong><\/a>, UC President\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow<br \/>\nDepartment of Ethnic Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Riverside<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler and Indigenous Performance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This talk examines the genealogy of settler images of the mixed-race, \u201calmost white,\u201d Polynesian body within early twentieth century <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugenics\" target=\"_blank\">eugenics<\/a>. I look at why the idea that Polynesians used to be white, and are destined to be white again in the future, persists, and how it structures settler colonialism in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polynesia\" target=\"_blank\">Polynesia<\/a>, with a particular focus on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawaii\" target=\"_blank\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also show how Indigenous artists work to decolonize categories of race and gender attributed to Polynesian bodies, reframing their own bodies within Indigenous frameworks and futures.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/events.ucr.edu\/cgi-bin\/display.cgi?comp_id=41982:20141021161000\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DANCE\/CHANGE: The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler and Indigenous Performance University of California, Riverside 900 University Avenue Riverside, California 92521 Athletics &amp; Dance Building Dance Studio Theatre, ATHD 102 Tuesday, 2014-10-21, 16:10-18-00 PDT (Local Time) Maile Arvin, UC President\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Ethnic Studies University of California, Riverside The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,13,8],"tags":[911,17018,17008,17020,17017,18068],"class_list":{"0":"post-37608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-anthropology","7":"category-liveevents","8":"category-media-archive","9":"tag-hawaii","11":"tag-maile-arvin","12":"tag-maile-r-arvin","13":"tag-maile-renee-arvin","14":"tag-university-of-california-at-riverside"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42752,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37608\/revisions\/42752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}