Sublime

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

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

Commodified Hawaiian culture—the “luau,” the “hula girl,” and “aloha”—became part of the American vernacular and everyday life.

Is there any tribe more

filled with the kind of determined cheer that masked a deeper despair.