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Book Review: POSSESSING POLYNESIANS: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania. By Maile Arvin.

Document type:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Author(s):
Gugganig, Mascha
Non-TUM Co-author(s):
nein
Cooperation:
-
Abstract:
"From their earliest encounters with indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be, racially, almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polynesians Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia, especially in Hawai'i. Arvin argues that a logic of possession through whiteness animates set...     »
Keywords:
Ethnology, Colonization, Origin, Polynesia, Polynesians, Race identity
Intellectual Contribution:
Discipline-based Research
Journal title:
Pacific Affairs
Journal listet in FT50 ranking:
nein
Year:
2020
Journal volume:
93
Journal issue:
4
Pages contribution:
883--885
WWW:
https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/possessing-polynesians-the-science-of-settler-colonial-whiteness-in-hawaii-and-oceania-by-maile-arvin/
Judgement review:
None
Key publication:
Nein
Peer reviewed:
Ja
Commissioned:
not commissioned
Technology:
Nein
Interdisciplinarity:
Nein
Mission statement:
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Ethics and Sustainability:
Nein
SDG:
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