Forward Without Fear - Native Hawaiians American Education in Territorial Hawai i, 19001941

Derek Taira argues that during the territorial period many Hawaiians neither subscribed nor succumbed to public schools’ aggressive efforts to assimilate and Americanize but instead engaged with American education to envision and support an alternate future.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Language
Introduction
1. Territorial Hawai¿i: An American Colony
2. Making Hawai¿i Safe for America: Schools and Americanization
3. Resistance, Resiliency, and Accommodation: Native Hawaiian Student Responses to Americanization
4. Seemingly Compliant but Quietly Defiant: Native Hawaiian Educators in Settler Hawai¿i Schools
5. Native Sovereignty in “Unexpected Places”: Community Petitions and Pro-Hawaiian Legislation
Conclusion: Imua, Me Ka Hopo ¿Ole
Notes
Bibliography
Index
 

About the author

Derek Taira is an associate professor of educational administration at the University of Hawai‘i at M¿noa.
 

Product details

• Authors: Derek Taira
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781496236166
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-3616-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Studies in Pacific Worlds
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore