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As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
plan to enrich a few well-connected US publishers and pedagogues, this represented a direct assault on four hundred years of language and culture under the guise of “civilizing a savage people.”4
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans
Imperial Hospitality
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Hawaiian women thus bore the responsibility of reproducing national knowledge
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
disguising military authority as island hospitality.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Virtually every endangered language is endangered because its community was systematically targeted by genocide, forced cultural assimilation, some kind of political marginalization. On a practical level, language diversity encodes the sum of human cultural, historical and ecological knowledge. As a species, we lose knowledge when we lose languages
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