Author: Hawaiian Homes CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Report of the Hawaiian Homes Commission to the Legislature of Hawaii
Author: Hawaiian Homes CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Hawaiian Blood
Author: J. Kehaulani KauanuiPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082239149X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those people “with at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778.” This “blood logic” has since become an entrenched part of the legal system in Hawai‘i. Hawaiian Blood is the first comprehensive history and analysis of this federal law that equates Hawaiian cultural identity with a quantifiable amount of blood. J. Kēhaulani Kauanui explains how blood quantum classification emerged as a way to undermine Native Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli) sovereignty. Within the framework of the 50-percent rule, intermarriage “dilutes” the number of state-recognized Native Hawaiians. Thus, rather than support Native claims to the Hawaiian islands, blood quantum reduces Hawaiians to a racial minority, reinforcing a system of white racial privilege bound to property ownership. Kauanui provides an impassioned assessment of how the arbitrary correlation of ancestry and race imposed by the U.S. government on the indigenous people of Hawai‘i has had far-reaching legal and cultural effects. With the HHCA, the federal government explicitly limited the number of Hawaiians included in land provisions, and it recast Hawaiians’ land claims in terms of colonial welfare rather than collective entitlement. Moreover, the exclusionary logic of blood quantum has profoundly affected cultural definitions of indigeneity by undermining more inclusive Kanaka Maoli notions of kinship and belonging. Kauanui also addresses the ongoing significance of the 50-percent rule: Its criteria underlie recent court decisions that have subverted the Hawaiian sovereignty movement and brought to the fore charged questions about who counts as Hawaiian.
Hawaiian Homes Commission
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the TerritoriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Hawaiian Homes Commission Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on TerritoriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Hawaiian Homes Commission Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the TerritoriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Amendments by the State of Hawaii to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Consideration of Amendments to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Hawaiian Homes Commission
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the TerritoriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Hawaiian Home Lands
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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