Protected: on voice, and broken records

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Hawaiians in the encyclopedia

One of my assignments this week involved the 1980 Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups which lists 106 entries of “ethnic groups” from stuff like “American Indians” and “Indochinese” (apparently their term for Vietnamese) to “Pennsylvania Germans” and “Southerners” (apparently used for the white ones who caused slavery).
Some choice bits from the “Hawaiians” entry, which [...]

notes on the indigenous academy

So a partial or initial report back from NAIS, as I prepare my presentation for tomorrow, and also get ready to leave (almost immediately after). For me, participation in this conference (as with our own conference at UCSD) has largely been an experience in professionalization. By that I mean, I am learning what an academic [...]

Famous are the Flowers

Newly posted on The Nation’s website is Elinor Langer’s “Famous are the Flowers: Hawaiian Resistance Then- and Now.” It’s a very good crash course in political history of Hawai’i, and I’m excited to see it in a national market. It’s quite thoroughly researched, especially in its treatment of the years around the overthrow, and she [...]

welcome to Georgia

I’m in Athens, Georgia this week to attend the Native American and Indigenous Studies conference, being held at the University of Georgia. I’m tired out, more by the 2 hour shuttle drive (overfull with irritated people) from the Atlanta airport than the flight itself. I hope to share a little more of what’s going on [...]