Dissonant Belonging and the Making of Community: Native Hawaiian Claims to Selfhood and Home

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dc.contributor.advisorKim, Seung-kyungen_US
dc.contributor.authorSoon-Ludes, Jeannetteen_US
dc.contributor.departmentWomen's Studiesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T05:45:35Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T05:45:35Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractIn 1898 the United States illegally annexed the Hawaiian Islands over the protests of Queen Liliʽuokalani and the Hawaiian people. American hegemony has been deepened in the intervening years through a range of colonizing practices that alienate Kanaka Maoli, the indigenous people of Hawaiʽi, from their land and culture. Dissonant Belonging and the Making of Community is an exploration of contemporary Hawaiian peoplehood that reclaims indigenous conceptions of multiethnicity from colonizing narratives of nation and race. Drawing from archival holdings at the University of Hawaiʽi, Mānoa and in-depth interviews, this project offers an analysis of public and everyday discourses of nation, race, and peoplehood to trace the discursive struggle over Local identity and politics. A context-specific social formation in Hawaiʽi, “Local” is commonly understood as a multiethnic identity that has its roots in working-class, ethnic minority culture of the mid-twentieth century. However, American discourses of race and, later, multiethnicity have functioned to render invisible the indigenous roots of this social formation. Dissonant Belonging and the Making of Community reclaims these roots as an important site of indigenous resistance to American colonialism. It traces, on the one hand, the ways in which Native Hawaiian resistance has been alternately erased and appropriated. On the other hand, it explores the meanings of Local identity to Native Hawaiians and the ways in which indigenous conceptions of multiethnicity enabled a thriving community under conditions of colonialism.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2K78C
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18202
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEthnic studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledWomen's studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcolonialismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledindigenousen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledKanaka Maolien_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLocalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPacificen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsovereigntyen_US
dc.titleDissonant Belonging and the Making of Community: Native Hawaiian Claims to Selfhood and Homeen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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