Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania by Maile Renee Arvin

Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania

Maile Renee Arvin

328 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction gender history
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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 Mediter...

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