{"id":7830,"date":"2010-07-03T02:10:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T02:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2013-02-18T23:30:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T23:30:06","slug":"hawaiian-blood-colonialism-and-the-politics-of-sovereignty-and-indigeneity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7830","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Duke University Press
\n<\/a>2008
\n264 pages
\n5 photographs, 2 tables
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4<\/p>\n

J. K\u0113haulani Kauanui<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies
\nWesleyan University<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA)<\/a> of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined \u201cnative Hawaiians\u201d as those people \u201cwith at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778.\u201d This \u201cblood logic\u201d has since become an entrenched part of the legal system in Hawai\u2018i. Hawaiian Blood<\/em> is the first comprehensive history and analysis of this federal law that equates Hawaiian cultural identity with a quantifiable amount of blood. J. K\u0113haulani Kauanui explains how blood quantum classification emerged as a way to undermine Native Hawaiian<\/a> (Kanaka Maoli) sovereignty. Within the framework of the 50-percent rule, intermarriage \u201cdilutes\u201d the number of state-recognized Native Hawaiians. Thus, rather than support Native claims to the Hawaiian islands, blood quantum reduces Hawaiians to a racial minority, reinforcing a system of white racial privilege bound to property ownership.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kauanui provides an impassioned assessment of how the arbitrary correlation of ancestry and race imposed by the U.S. government on the indigenous people of Hawai\u2018i has had far-reaching legal and cultural effects. With the HHCA, the federal government explicitly limited the number of Hawaiians included in land provisions, and it recast Hawaiians\u2019 land claims in terms of colonial welfare rather than collective entitlement. Moreover, the exclusionary logic of blood quantum has profoundly affected cultural definitions of indigeneity by undermining more inclusive Kanaka Maoli<\/a> notions of kinship and belonging. Kauanui also addresses the ongoing significance of the 50-percent rule: Its criteria underlie recent court decisions that have subverted the Hawaiian sovereignty movement and brought to the fore charged questions about who counts as Hawaiian.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Note to Readers
\nAcknowledgments
\nIntroduction: Got Blood?<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Racialized Beneficiaries and Genealogical Descendants<\/li>\n
  2. “Can you wonder that the Hawaiians did not get more?” Historical Context for the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act<\/li>\n
  3. Under the Guise of Hawaiian Rehabilitation<\/li>\n
  4. The Virile, Prolific, and Enterprising: Part-Hawaiians and the Problem with Rehabilitation<\/li>\n
  5. Limiting Hawaiians, Limiting the Bill: Rehabilitation Recoded<\/li>\n
  6. Sovereignty Struggles and the Legacy of the 50-Percent Rule<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Notes
    \nBibliography
    \nIndex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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