{"id":3797,"date":"2009-12-12T19:10:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T19:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2015-01-21T19:02:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:02:31","slug":"living-proof-is-hawaii-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3797","title":{"rendered":"Living Proof: Is Hawaii the Answer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0002716293530001010\" target=\"_blank\">Living Proof: Is Hawaii the Answer?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\/content\/530\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 530, Number 1<\/a> (November 1993)<br \/>\npages 137-154<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0002716293530001010\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0002716293530001010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glen_Grant\" target=\"_blank\">Glen Grant<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/amst\/people_ogawa.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dennis M. Ogawa<\/strong><\/a>, Professor and Department Chair of American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Hawaii<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawaii\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii<\/a> has often been heralded for its relatively harmonious race relations, which encompass a great diversity of Asian and Pacific cultures. As the national concern with respect to multi-culturalism escalates into a debate over the merits of ethnicity versus amalgamation into the American melting pot, an understanding of Hawaii&#8217;s social and racial systems may demand greater scrutiny. The living proof that the islands&#8217; people offer is not racial bliss or perfect equality but an example of how the perpetuation of ethnic identities can actually enhance race relations within the limits of a social setting marked by (1) the historical development of diverse ethnic groups without the presence of a racial or cultural majority; (2) the adherence to the values of tolerance represented in the Polynesian concept of aloha kanaka, an open love for human beings; and (3) the integration of Pacific, Asian, European, and Anglo-American groups into a new local culture.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\/content\/530\/1\/137.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living Proof: Is Hawaii the Answer? The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 530, Number 1 (November 1993) pages 137-154 DOI: 10.1177\/0002716293530001010 Glen Grant Dennis M. Ogawa, Professor and Department Chair of American Studies University of Hawaii Hawaii has often been heralded for its relatively harmonious race relations, which encompass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,26,394,20],"tags":[11276,1482,19122,1481,911,1483],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-annals-of-the-american-academy-of-political-and-social-science","tag-dennis-m-ogawa","tag-dennis-ogawa","tag-glen-grant","tag-hawaii","tag-the-annals-of-the-american-academy-of-political-and-social-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","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=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}