Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania by Maile Arvin, Maile Arvin

Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania

Maile Arvin, Maile Arvin

328 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediter...

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