Possessing Polynesians
ISBN: 9781478005650
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Polynesians; Polynesians; Ethnology;

Maile Arvin analyzes the history of racialization of Polynesians within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia, especially in Hawai'i, arguing that a logic of possession through whiteness animates European and Hawaiian settler colonialism.

Maile Arvin is Assistant Professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Utah.

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