Review of "Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania" by Maile Arvin (Duke University Press)
Arvin explains how dispossessing Polynesians was predicated on a logic of settler colonialism inflected by white supremacy. Casting Polynesians as white—specifically, as “almost white”—as opposed to distancing Polynesians from Caucasians, simultaneously provided white settlers the justification they...
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| Language: | English |
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Cultural Studies Association
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Lateral |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.25158/L9.1.19 |