Paradoxes of Hawaiian sovereignty : land, sex, and the colonial politics of state nationalism /

"In Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty J. Kēhaulani Kauanui examines contradictions of Indigeneity and self-determination in U.S. domestic policy and international law. She theorizes paradoxes in the laws themselves and in nationalist assertions of Hawaiian Kingdom restoration and demands for U...

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Author / Contributor: Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani, 1968- (Author)
Imprint: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: contradictory sovereignty
  • Contested Indigeneity: between kingdom and "tribe"
  • Properties of land: that which feeds
  • Gender, marriage, and coverture: a new proprietary relationship
  • "Savage" sexualities
  • Conclusion: decolonial challenges to the legacies of occupation and settler colonialism
  • Glossary of Hawaiian words and phrases.