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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
ideas argue that racist policies are the cause
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Japan had something different to offer: “Asia for the Asiatics.” That slogan may sound banal today, but for a region long colonized, it was a powerful, revolutionary idea. Even Romulo conceded that it was “morally unassailable.
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire

Splitting Hairs
Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
By Sarah Gold McBride
Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
By Sarah Gold McBride
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship

Since antiracists posit that the racial groups are already civilized, antiracist policies are geared toward reducing racial inequities and creating equal opportunity.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Hirota cabinet (1936–37)
Hiromi Mizuno • Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.