Hawaii Is My Haven
Hawaii Is My Haven Hawaiʻi Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. Nitasha Tamar Sharma highlights the paradox of Hawaiʻi as a multiracial paradise and site…
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Hawaii Is My Haven
Hawaiʻi Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. Nitasha Tamar Sharma highlights the paradox of Hawaiʻi as a multiracial paradise and site of unacknowledged anti-Black racism. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised Black locals and Black transplants who moved to the Islands from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean.
In this formerly sovereign nation structured neither by the US Black/White binary nor the one drop rule, nonWhite multiracials, including Black Hawaiians and Black Koreans, illustrate the coarticulation and limits of race and the native/settler divide. While Black culture is ubiquitous here, African-descended people seem invisible. Despite erasure and racism, nonmilitary Black residents consider Hawaiʻi their haven, describing it as a place to "breathe" that offers
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