Sublime

nisei

Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.

So as long as it lasts, I want to write nearby Rodrigo Toscano, who pulls his Spanglish phonetic syllables apart like taffy (“tha’ vahnahnah go-een to keel joo”) or LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, who recombines black slang, Japanese, Spanish, Chamorro, and Tagalog into a remastered Afro-Futurist song (“…bubblegum kink / a Sheik’s interloper. / A radical

To make myself, and by proxy other Asian Americans, more human and a little more relevant to American culture.

As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.

The Great Wave at Kanagawa.

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Illegibility was a political act.