Possessing Polynesians The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai'i and Oceania

Possessing Polynesians The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai'i and OceaniaMaile Marvin Softcover, 328 pp. From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polynesians Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia, especially in

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