Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity » (New Edition)

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Wesleyan University.

Study of the legal and cultural effects of the "fifty-percent blood quantum" rule which was first instituted in the 1920s to define who counted as a native Hawaiian and which has continuing influence on legislation and on the Hawaiian sovereignt

Contents

A Note to Readers....................xi
Acknowledgments....................xiii
Introduction: Got Blood?....................1
1. Racialized Beneficiaries and Genealogical Descendants....................37
2. "Can you wonder that the Hawaiians did not get more?" Historical Context for the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act....................67
3. Under the Guise of Hawaiian Rehabilitation....................99
4. The Virile, Prolific, and Enterprising: Part-Hawaiians and the Problem with Rehabilitation....................121
5. Limiting Hawaiians, Limiting the Bill: Rehabilitation Recoded....................145
6. Sovereignty Struggles and the Legacy of the 50-Percent Rule....................171
Notes....................197
Bibliography....................211
Index....................229