Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
African Americans In Hawaii
Download African Americans In Hawaii full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online African Americans In Hawaii ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis African Americans in Hawai'i by : D. Molentia Guttman
Download or read book African Americans in Hawai'i written by D. Molentia Guttman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early 1800s, about two dozen men of African descent lived in Hawai'i. The most noteworthy was Anthony D. Allen, a businessman who had traveled around the world before making Hawai'i his home and starting a family there in 1810. The 25th Black Infantry Regiment, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers, arrived in Honolulu at the Schofield Barracks in 1913. They built an 18-mile trail to the summit of Mauna Loa, the world's largest shield volcano, and constructed a cabin there for research scientists. After World War II, the black population of Hawai'i increased dramatically as military families moved permanently to the island. Hawai'i has a diverse population, and today about 35,000 residents, approximately three percent, claim African ancestry.
Book Synopsis They Followed the Trade Winds by : Miles M. Jackson
Download or read book They Followed the Trade Winds written by Miles M. Jackson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis African Americans in Hawaii by : Miles M. Jackson
Download or read book African Americans in Hawaii written by Miles M. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hawai'i Is My Haven by : Nitasha Tamar Sharma
Download or read book Hawai'i Is My Haven written by Nitasha Tamar Sharma and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawaiʻi Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised Black locals and Black transplants who moved to the Islands from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Nitasha Tamar Sharma highlights the paradox of Hawaiʻi as a multiracial paradise and site of unacknowledged antiBlack racism. While Black culture is ubiquitous here, African-descended people seem invisible. In this formerly sovereign nation structured neither by the US Black/White binary nor the one-drop rule, nonWhite multiracials, including Black Hawaiians and Black Koreans, illustrate the coarticulation and limits of race and the native/settler divide. Despite erasure and racism, nonmilitary Black residents consider Hawaiʻi their haven, describing it as a place to “breathe” that offers the possibility of becoming local. Sharma's analysis of race, indigeneity, and Asian settler colonialism shifts North American debates in Black and Native studies to the Black Pacific. Hawaiʻi Is My Haven illustrates what the Pacific offers members of the African diaspora and how they in turn illuminate race and racism in “paradise.”
Book Synopsis African Americans in Hawai'i by : Ayin Adams
Download or read book African Americans in Hawai'i written by Ayin Adams and published by Delane Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contents of this book are straight and unforgettable. Through reading these selected essays and interviews that validate Hawaii’s African Americans’ contributions and the historical issues, the reader will also discover issues of identity and pain, resulting from the derogatory images of blacks in western art, literature, and the media that have permeated the local psyche and eroded a positive self image and respect for blacks. The reader of this book will be left with fresh new images of and respect for blacks in Hawai`i, after learning of their 19th century migrations, leadership roles, successes and contributions to the whaling industry, medicine, business, education, science, civil service, the arts, social work, the military, and politics. The reader will learn that some blacks, before Oprah and other celebrities who have bought homes in the islands, have lived large and often very successful lives and often gone unrecognized in the lush and verdant beauty of the Hawaiian Islands. In this book, Adams presents selective histories of black residents in the Islands. She presents interviews of some outstanding black residents who talk story, politics and ethics, chewing the water, sharing their experiences of life in the Islands. She presents significant cultural and community organizations and events demonstrating how the small African American community, especially on O`ahu and Maui, works together to perpetuate values and to build a strong community and exemplify their civic responsibilities. Adams recognizes the power of words to represent and unveil history. She includes essays documenting migrations of blacks to Hawai`i in the 1800s and the histories of those black men who left slavery, families, and/or communities behind. Their initial acceptance into a generous and welcoming local Hawaiian community, their contributions to the small and evolving cultural and business worlds are extolled. Some chapters reveal the increasing alienation and exclusion of blacks and Hawaiians in the growing immigrant community, leading to the current paucity of blacks in the islands compared with other immigrant groups, including Caucasians, Asians, Southeast Asians and Europeans, given their relatively strong representation and successes amongst the foreigners in the early 1800s. Black contributions to the military in the Pacific theater, island politics, education, sports, medicine and culture are highlighted. The struggle of blacks to navigate between race and culture, ethnicity and history, has been energized by their enduring spiritual tradition, gallons of patience and buckets of hope. As blacks slowly emerge from a storm of stereotypes, unseen sharks of prejudice still lurk just below the surface of respectability and fair play in the form of glass ceilings, preferential hiring patterns, poverty and homelessness, absence in the media, invisibility in advertisements and tourism, and lingering images that stereotype, demonize, or otherwise make blacks look different and inferior. Unfortunately, the role of blacks in world civilization and history is almost unknown in the islands, and in the past, youth, especially those with dark skins, have had few positive role models to inspire them to strive for success. With the recent election of President Obama, it is hoped that there will soon be a more balanced teaching of black history in the Department of Education and higher education in Hawai`i, including mythology of ancient dark skinned African gods and goddesses, like Osiris, Isis, Nefertiti, the Queen of Sheba, the early African architects and astronomers, the black Magi, the ancient African universities and history of medicine and surgery, the mathematicians who envisioned the Pyramids, the black Madonnas and Saints, the countless agriculturalists, environmentalists, musicians, actors, healers, dancers, and the genius of black inventors, scientists, and artists. If for no other reason than the future unity of our country is at risk, the values of continuity and connectedness seem important goals to cleave to.
Download or read book And They Came written by Miles M. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis African-Americans in Hawaii by : Hawaii State Library. Hawaii & Pacific Section
Download or read book African-Americans in Hawaii written by Hawaii State Library. Hawaii & Pacific Section and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First Strange Place by : Beth Bailey
Download or read book The First Strange Place written by Beth Bailey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as World War I introduced Americans to Europe, making an indelible impression on thousands of farmboys who were changed forever “after they saw Paree,” so World War II was the beginning of America’s encounter with the East – an encounter whose effects are still being felt and absorbed. No single place was more symbolic of this initial encounter than Hawaii, the target of the first unforgettable Japanese attack on American forces, and, as the forward base and staging area for all military operations in the Pacific, the “first strange place” for close to a million soldiers, sailors, and marines on their way to the horrors of war. But as Beth Bailey and David Farber show in this evocative and timely book, Hawaii was also the first strange place on another kind of journey, toward the new American society that began to emerge in the postwar era. Unlike the largely rigid and static social order of prewar America, this was to be a highly mobile and volatile society of mixed racial and cultural influences, one above all in which women and minorities would increasingly demand and receive equal status. With consummate skill and sensitivity, Bailey and Farber show how these unprecedented changes were tested and explored in the highly charged environment of wartime Hawaii. Most of the hundreds of thousands of men and women whom war brought to Hawaii were expecting a Hollywood image of “paradise.” What they found instead was vastly different: a complex crucible in which radically diverse elements – social, racial, sexual – were mingled and transmuted in the heat and strain of war. Drawing on the rich and largely untapped reservoir of documents, diaries, memoirs, and interviews with men and women who were there, the authors vividly recreate the dense, lush, atmosphere of wartime Hawaii – an atmosphere that combined the familiar and exotic in a mixture that prefigured the special strangeness of American society today.
Download or read book Beyond Ethnicity written by Camilla Fojas and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai‘i is understood. Instead, ethnic difference is celebrated as a sign of multicultural globalism that designates Hawai‘i as the crossroads of the Pacific. Racial inequality is disruptive to the tourist image of the islands. It ruptures the image of tolerance, diversity, and happiness upon which tourism, business, and so many other vested transnational interests in the islands are based. The contributors of this interdisciplinary volume reconsider Hawai‘i as a model of ethnic and multiracial harmony through the lens of race in their analysis of historical events, group relations and individual experiences, and humor, among other focal points. Beyond Ethnicity examines the dynamics between race, ethnicity, and indigeneity to challenge the primacy of ethnicity and cultural practices for examining difference in Hawai‘i while recognizing the significant role of settler colonialism. This original and thought-provoking volume reveals what a racial analysis illuminates about the current political configuration of the islands and, in doing so, challenges how we conceptualize race on the continent. Recognizing the ways that Native Hawaiians or Kānaka Maoli are impacted by shifting, violent, and hierarchical colonial structures that include racial inequalities, the editors and contributors explore questions of personhood and citizenship through language, land, labor, and embodiment. By admitting to these tensions and ambivalences, the editors set the pace and tempo of powerfully argued essays that engage with the various ways that Kānaka Maoli and the influx of differentially racialized settlers continue to shift the social, political, and cultural terrains of the Hawaiian Islands over time.
Book Synopsis Annie's Child by : Hollis Earl Johnson
Download or read book Annie's Child written by Hollis Earl Johnson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotional autobiography of an African American's journey to Hawaii, through the racism of America.
Book Synopsis African American Attorneys in Hawaii by : Daphne Barbee-Wooten
Download or read book African American Attorneys in Hawaii written by Daphne Barbee-Wooten and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The White Pacific written by Gerald Horne and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Book title] ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of "blackbirding" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis Multicultural Hawaiʻi by : Michael Haas
Download or read book Multicultural Hawaiʻi written by Michael Haas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects 15 essays which provide detailed analyses of multicultural approaches to a multiethnic reality and how the Aloha State addresses economic, political and social problems. Topics include a brief history, language, the media, music, literature, public opinion and cultural values, politics, organized labor, social stratification, education, crime and justice, and political economy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Book Synopsis Becoming Mexipino by : Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr.
Download or read book Becoming Mexipino written by Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic groups, one Mexican, the other Filipino, whose paths led both groups to San Diego, California. Rudy Guevarra traces the earliest interactions of both groups with Spanish colonialism to illustrate how these historical ties and cultural bonds laid the foundation for what would become close interethnic relationships and communities in twentieth-century San Diego as well as in other locales throughout California and the Pacific West Coast. Through racially restrictive covenants and other forms of discrimination, both groups, regardless of their differences, were confined to segregated living spaces along with African Americans, other Asian groups, and a few European immigrant clusters. Within these urban multiracial spaces, Mexicans and Filipinos coalesced to build a world of their own through family and kin networks, shared cultural practices, social organizations, and music and other forms of entertainment. They occupied the same living spaces, attended the same Catholic churches, and worked together creating labor cultures that reinforced their ties, often fostering marriages. Mexipino children, living simultaneously in two cultures, have forged a new identity for themselves. Their lives are the lens through which these two communities are examined, revealing the ways in which Mexicans and Filipinos interacted over generations to produce this distinct and instructive multiethnic experience. Using archival sources, oral histories, newspapers, and personal collections and photographs, Guevarra defines the niche that this particular group carved out for itself.
Book Synopsis Report on the University of Hawaii and the African-American Athlete by : Afro-American Association of Hawai'i
Download or read book Report on the University of Hawaii and the African-American Athlete written by Afro-American Association of Hawai'i and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black Pioneers in Blue Hawaii by : Yvonne Moore
Download or read book Black Pioneers in Blue Hawaii written by Yvonne Moore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Pioneers In Blue Hawaii is absolutely captivating and informative. A must read. Its about people of African ancestry who have lived in Hawaii dating back to the 1800s. Some of the pioneers are: Anthony Allen, a former runaway slave who became rich and famous, Betsey Stockton, missionary and teacher, William Crockett, graduate of the University of Michigan in 1888 and became a judge in Maui during the early 1900s, Nolle Smith, cowboy , engineer, Alice Ball, first woman to graduate with a degree in chemistry from the University of Hawaii in 1925, Eddie Cole (Nat King Coles brother) entertainer and actor, the plantation workers from Alabama who had an impromptu concert for the local strikers, doing the juba, turkey trots and the hoe downs . Trummy Young and others.
Book Synopsis Story of Hawaii Coloring Book by : Y. S. Green
Download or read book Story of Hawaii Coloring Book written by Y. S. Green and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic history of America's 50th state in 43 ready-to-color illustrations. Color traditional god, hula dancers, a warrior, plants and animals, more. Fact-filled, informative captions.
