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Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
installing a discourse of Hawaiian cultural participation in everyday militarized life.
from Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire by Adria L. Imada
Walter Briggs added 3mo ago
In their critiques of colonialism and neocolonialism, feminist scholars of the Pacific have discussed how female bodies have been deployed for colonial and neocolonial ends.
from Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire by Adria L. Imada
Walter Briggs added 3mo ago
This idea of Hawai‘i as a site of hospitality was owed to the already robust cultural imaginary produced during fifty years of hula's circulation in the United States, but World War II activated this idea fully.
from Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire by Adria L. Imada
Walter Briggs added 3mo ago
Those who sought a more indelible Hawaiian souvenir could have a hula girl tattooed on their bodies.30
from Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire by Adria L. Imada
Walter Briggs added 3mo ago
live hula performances in the continental United States began a process of marking Hawai‘i as an eroticized and feminized space, a space disposed to political, military, and tourist penetration.
from Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire by Adria L. Imada
Walter Briggs added 3mo ago
the popular cultural phenomenon of hula also helped to broker this process of incorporation and integration.
from Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire by Adria L. Imada
Walter Briggs added 3mo ago
“I wouldn't dance at home. People would be too critical, saying we used to dance for haoles. When I came home, I was embarrassed.”58
from Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire by Adria L. Imada
Walter Briggs added 3mo ago
Walter Briggs added 3mo ago
the hālau hula system,
from Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire by Adria L. Imada
Walter Briggs added 3mo ago