{"id":62986,"date":"2022-02-07T21:53:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T21:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62986"},"modified":"2022-02-07T22:10:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T22:10:59","slug":"eric-stinton-its-time-to-recognize-that-black-history-is-part-of-hawaiis-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62986","title":{"rendered":"Eric Stinton: It’s Time To Recognize That Black History Is Part Of Hawaii’s History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Stinton: It’s Time To Recognize That Black History Is Part Of Hawaii’s History<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Honolulu Civic Beat<\/a>
\nHonolulu, Hawaii
\n2022-02-07<\/p>\n

Eric Stinton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Nitasha Tamar Sharma<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nitasha Tamar Sharma<\/a> attempts to clarify misconceptions and challenges common assumptions about race in Hawaii<\/a> in her book \u201cHawai\u02bbi Is My Haven<\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

On the cover of Nitasha Tamar Sharma\u2019s<\/a> recent book, \u201cHawai\u02bbi Is My Haven<\/a>,\u201d is a striking image of Kamakak\u0113hau Fernandez<\/a> wearing a pink bombax flower<\/a> lei<\/a>. The Na Hoku Hanohano award<\/a>-winning falsetto singer and ukulele<\/a> player was adopted from Arkansas<\/a> by a Maui<\/a> family when he was six weeks old, and was enrolled in Hawaiian language<\/a> classes starting in kindergarten. He grew up in Hawaii<\/a> and with Hawaii in him.<\/p>\n

Fernandez is one of countless examples of Black locals who have contributed to Hawaiian culture and life for over 200 years, yet whose stories have largely gone unrecognized.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack people have been evacuated out of the narrative of who is in Hawaii,\u201d Sharma says. \u201cHistorically we don\u2019t think Black people were in Hawaii when they actually were.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u201cHawai\u02bbi Is My Haven.” On the cover of Nitasha Tamar Sharma\u2019s recent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,459,8,4405,394,20],"tags":[32929,911,17018,32928,32927,32936,5357],"class_list":{"0":"post-62986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-anthropology","7":"category-articles","8":"category-history","9":"category-media-archive","10":"category-oceania","11":"category-socialscience","12":"category-usa","13":"tag-eric-stinton","14":"tag-hawaii","16":"tag-honolulu-civic-beat","17":"tag-kamakakehau-fernandez","18":"tag-kamakakehau-fernandez-2","19":"tag-nitasha-tamar-sharma"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62986","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=62986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62992,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62986\/revisions\/62992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}