{"id":46509,"date":"2016-05-29T21:25:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46509"},"modified":"2016-05-29T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T21:28:11","slug":"staking-claim-settler-colonialism-and-racialization-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46509","title":{"rendered":"Staking Claim: Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai&#8217;i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uapress.arizona.edu\/Books\/bid2607.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Staking Claim: Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai&#8217;i<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uapress.arizona.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Arizona Press<\/a><br \/>\n2016-05-28<br \/>\n232 pages<br \/>\n6.00 x 9.00<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-0251-6<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wku.edu\/dcs\/master-of-arts-in-social-responsibility-and-sustainable-communities\/faculty\/judy_rohrer.php\" target=\"_blank\">Judy Rohrer<\/a><\/strong>, Director of the Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (ICSR); Assistant Professor in Diversity and Community Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Western Kentucky, Bowling Green, Kentucky<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uapress.arizona.edu\/Books\/bid2607.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/618zD5GXAYL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Exploring how racialization is employed to further colonialism<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the heart of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pacific_Ocean\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Ocean<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawaii\" target=\"_blank\">Hawai&#8217;i<\/a> exists at a global crosscurrent of indigeneity and race, homeland and diaspora, nation and globalization, sovereignty and imperialism. In order to better understand how settler colonialism works and thus move decolonization efforts forward, <em>Staking Claim<\/em> analyzes competing claims of identity, belonging, and political status in Hawai&#8217;i.<\/p>\n<p>Author Judy Rohrer brings together an analysis of racial formation and colonization in the islands through a study of legal cases, contemporary public discourse (local media and literature), and Hawai&#8217;i scholarship. Her analysis exposes how racialization works to obscure\u2014with the ultimate goal of eliminating\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Native_Hawaiians\" target=\"_blank\">native Hawaiian<\/a> indigeneity, homeland, nation, and sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p><em>Staking Claim<\/em> argues that the dual settler colonial processes of racializing native Hawaiians (erasing their indigeneity), and indigenizing non-Hawaiians, enable the staking of non-Hawaiian claims to Hawai&#8217;i. It encourages us to think beyond a settler-native binary by analyzing the ways racializations of Hawaiians and various non-Hawaiian settlers and arrivants bolster settler colonial claims, structures, and white supremacist ideologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staking Claim: Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai&#8217;i University of Arizona Press 2016-05-28 232 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-0251-6 Judy Rohrer, Director of the Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (ICSR); Assistant Professor in Diversity and Community Studies University of Western Kentucky, Bowling Green, Kentucky Exploring how racialization is employed to further colonialism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,1196,8,17,4405,20],"tags":[911,4311,1486],"class_list":["post-46509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-oceania","category-usa","tag-hawaii","tag-judy-rohrer","tag-university-of-arizona-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46509","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=46509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46511,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46509\/revisions\/46511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}