Book Review: Judy Rohrer, Haoles in Hawai‘i: Race and Ethnicity in Hawai‘i. UH Press - 2010

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4. Agreed.

I hear "moke" often, although generally "tita" was used as a term of feminine endearment.

I think this is part of the problem with having people who haven't lived a normal life in Hawaii trying to write about these terms, although I haven't read the book, but clearly the reviewer does not raise them. I think "moke" is definitely relevant along with some of the more common slurs used against the various Asian/Pacific populations.

Just kinda looking at some of the works available on amazon I think the preeminent study on racial construction in Hawaii has yet to be written.

This looks like a very interesting read: http://www.amazon.com/Value-Hawaii-Biography-Monograph-Monographs/dp/0824835298

The Value of Hawaii: Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future (A Biography Monograph) (Biography Monographs) [Paperback]
Craig Howes (Author, Editor), Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoole Osorio

Publication Date: July 31, 2010
How did we get here? Three-and-a-half-day school weeks. Prisoners farmed out to the mainland. Tent camps for the migratory homeless. A blinkered dependence on tourism and the military for virtually all economic activity. The steady degradation of already degraded land. Contempt for anyone employed in education, health, and social service. An almost theological belief in the evil of taxes.

At a time when new leaders will be elected, and new solutions need to be found, the contributors to The Value of Hawaii outline the causes of our current state and offer points of departure for a Hawaii-wide debate on our future. The brief essays address a wide range of topics education, the environment, Hawaiian issues, media, tourism, political culture, law, labor, economic planning, government, transportation, poverty but the contributors share a belief that taking stock of where we are right now, what we need to change, and what we need to remember is a challenge that all of us must meet.

If you go to googlebooks you can see the list of authors on the back cover. C'mon amazon christmas money

I thought Osorio's Dismembering Lahui: Dismembering Lahui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887 was a solid political history.