Sublime

Historians Clifford Trafzer and Michelle Lorimer found that California social studies textbooks failed to include critical content about the kidnapping, rape, enslavement and murder of indigenous peoples during the Gold Rush era of the mid- to late-1800s

Our names are poems, descriptions of animals, images that make perfect sense and no sense at all. We are Little Cloud, Littleman, Loneman, Bull Coming, Madbull, Bad Heart Bull, Jumping Bull, Bird, Birdshead, Kingbird, Magpie, Eagle, Turtle,

I seek to reveal how the colonial relationship between the United States and Hawai‘i has been constituted and intensified by cultural displays of hula since the U.S.-backed overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom.

In Savannah, she recommended that members of the writing workshop eat at the Grey Market, where she worked part-time. It is a New York bodega-inspired offshoot of the Grey, Mashama Bailey’s fine-dining Savannah restaurant. Bailey, a Black woman who moved between Georgia and New York throughout her childhood, learned to cook first from the women in

Hawaiians were “extraordinary eaters” and extraordinary dancers.9

More so than any other cultural or ethnographic artifact, the gendered hula dancer—or as she is known more familiarly in Americana, the “hula girl”—has come to represent Hawai‘i.