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Informationen zum Autor Maile Arvin is Assistant Professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Utah. Klappentext Maile Arvin is Assistant Professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Utah. Zusammenfassung Maile Arvin analyzes the history of racialization of Polynesians within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia, especially in Hawai‘i, arguing that a logic of possession through whiteness animates European and Hawaiian settler colonialism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Ix Introduction: Polynesia Is a Project, Not a Place 1 Part I. The Polynesian Problem: Scientific Production of the "Almost White" Polynesian Race 35 1. Heirlooms of the Aryan Race: Nineteenth-Century Studies of Polynesian Origins 43 2. Conditionally Caucasian: Polynesian Racial Classification in Early Twentieth-Century Eugenics and Physical Anthropology 67 3. hating Hawaiians, Celebrating Hybrid Hawaiian Girls: Sociology and the Fictions of Racial Mixture 96 Part II. Regenerative Refusals: Confronting Contemporary Legacies of the Polynesian Problem in Hawai'i and Oceania 125 4. Still in the Blood: Blood Quantum and Self-Determination in Day v. Apoliona and Federal Recognition 135 5. The Value of Polynesian DNA: Genomic Solutions to the Polynesian Problems 168 6. Regenerating Indigeneity: Challenging Possessive Whiteness in Contemporary Pacific Art 195 Conclusion. Regenerating an Oceanic Future in Indigenous Space-Time 224 Notes 241 Bibliography 279 Index
