Please join us for a book talk by Dr. Itsuji Saranillo, Assitant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University on Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood
Location:
Fowler 309
Event Date: Mar. 25, 2019
The book shows that Hawai'i's admission as a U.S. State was neither the expansion of U.S. Democracy nor a strong nation swallowing a weak and feeble island nation, but the result of a U.S. nation whose economy was unsustainable without enacting a more aggressive policy of imperialism. This talk provides a more complicated understanding of Hawai'i's admission as the fiftieth state and why Native Hawaiian place-based alternatives to U.S. empire are urgently needed.
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