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Sociology
456: Racism and Cultural Contacts in Hawaii
THE SYLLABUS
Most
Recent Required Paperback Books:
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Milton
Murayama, All
I Asking for is My Body (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i
Press, 1975). |
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Patrick Kirch and Marshall Sahlins,
Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the
Kingdom
of Hawaii: Historical Anthropology, Vol 1.
(Chicago: University of
Chicago
Press, 1994). |
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Peter T. Manicas (ed.), Social
Process in Hawaii: A Reader 2nd Edition, (New York: McGraw
Hill, 1997. |
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Lawrence H. Fuchs, Hawaii
Pono: A Social History (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1961). |
Week 1-2:
Getting Started
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Essay
#1: Write a short essay
(1000 words), “Why Ethnicity is Important.” |
Week
3-6 Hawaiians and
Haoles
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Read:
Anahulu (all). Haunani Kay
Trask, “Hawaiians, American Colonization and the Quest for
Independence,” Social
Process in Hawaii (hereafter SP),
pp. 1-19. Optional: Coffman,
Kame`elihiwa, Young, Osorio, Merry, Daws, Dougherty, Noenoe
Silva, “Ku`u! Hawaiian Women’s Resistance the Annexation,” Social
Process in Hawai`i 38 (1997) pp. 2-16.
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Essay
#2: 1000 word essay, on
one of the following topics” (1) The Transformation of Traditional
Hawai`i, 1778-1898: Haole, Ali`i, and
Maka’ainana as Agents of Change," (2) Hawaiian Christianity: Its Genesis, Development and the Role
Played in Structural Change in Hawai`i. (In addition to Kirch and
Sahlins, Lilikala’s account is critical. |
Week
7-9: From
Plantations to Tourism
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Read:
Lind, “Immigration to Hawai’i,” SP, pp. 58-67; Beechert,
“The Political Economy of Hawai’i and Working Class
Consciousness,” SP, pp. 151-178; Lord and Lee, “The Taxi Dance
Hall in Honolulu,” SP, pp. 68-72; Dranga, “Racial Factors in the
Employment of Women, “ SP, pp. 73-76; Yamamura, “Attitudes of
Hotel Workers,” SP, pp. 77-81; Alegado, “The Filipino Community
in Hawaii’s Development and Change, SP, pp., 92-118.
Fuchs, chapters 1-4. |
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Kawahara and Hatanaka, “Impact
of the War…” SP, pp. 82-118; Kimie Kawahara Lane and Ogata,
“Change of Attitudes of Plantation Workers,” SP. pp. 119-124;
Ikeda, “Unionization and the Plantation,” SP, pp. 125-137;
Fuchs, chapter 5, 6.
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Optional: Tamura, Americanization…;
” Sarah Lee Chang, “Koreans in Hawai`i”; Fred Soriano,
“Filipino Hawaiian Migration and Adaptation: New Paradigms for
Analysis,” both on the Blackboard, Edward Beechert, Working in
Hawai`i: A Labor History (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press,
1985). |
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Essay
#3: Topics to be
announced.
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Week
10-12: Who Rules Hawaii?
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Read:
Fuchs, chapters 13, 14, and 15; Cooper and Daws, Land
and Power in Hawaii (handout); Stauffer, “The
Tragic Maturing of Hawaii's Economy,” Aoude, “Tourist
Attraction: Hawaii’s Locked-in Economy,” SP, pp. 226-242.
Blackboard, "Hawaii's Politics." |
Week
13-15: Sovereignty:
Hawaiians, Haoles and Locals
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Read:
Blackboard: “Nations, Nation-States and Local Culture,” “Four
Forms of Sovereignty,” Alani Apio, Manicas, “Introduction,”
(to Ethnic Sources), Manicas,
“The Los Angelesation of Hawaii;” Trask, “Hawaiians…., SP,
pp. 19-32; Yamamoto, “The Significance of Local,” SP, pp.
138-150; Okamura, “Why There are no Asian Americans in Hawaii,”
SP, pp. 242-258). |
Final Essay: Due ?
Suggested Reading:
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Lilikala Kame`eleihiwa, Native
Lands and Foreign Desires (Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press,
1992. |
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Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo Osorio, Dismembering
Lahui: A History of the Hawaiian
Nation
to 1887 Honolulu,
University of Hawaii Press, 2002)
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Kanalu Terry Young, Rethinking
the Native Hawaiian Past (Hamilton Books, 1998). |
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Gavan Daws, Shoal of Time: A
History of the Hawaiian Islands (Honolulu: University of
Hawai`i Press, 1989). |
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Lawrence H. Fuchs, Hawaii
Pono: A Social History (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1961). |
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Sanford
Zalburg, A Spark is Struck! Jack Hall and the ILWU in
Hawai'i (Honolulu: University Press of Hawa'i,
1979). |
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Edward
Beechert, Working in Hawaii: A Labor History (Honolulu:
University of Hawai'i Press, 1985). |
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Sally Engle Merry, Colonizing
Hawaii: The Cultural Power of Law (Princeton : Princeton
University Press, 2000). |
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Michael Dougherty, To Steal a
Kingdom (Honolulu: Island Style Press, 1992). |
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Tom Coffman, Nation Within: The
Story of America’s Annexation of the Nation of
Hawai`i
(Kaneohe: Epicenter, nd).
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Eileen H. Tamura, Americanization,
Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity (Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1994). |
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Elvie Whittaker, The Mainland
Haole (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986). |
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Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Wild Meat
and the Bully Burgers (Harvest Book, 1997)
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Walt Novack, The Haole
Substitute (Fort Bragg, CA: Cypress House, 1994).
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