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This chapter analyzes wartime education and language projects for civilians in Hawai‘i, including primary, secondary, and university education; foreign language schools; the Speak American Campaign; and the recruitment of Hawai‘i Nisei to the Military Intelligence Service Language School. Wartime pedagogy articulated with racial liberal biopolitical imperatives to curate the speech, bodily comportment, and epistemological and civic priorities supposedly inherent to a civilized American population by cultivating these behaviors in the classroom and encouraging students to model them in daily life. Further, efforts to standardize “American” English language use in Hawai‘i built upon the longer history of attempts to eradicate the Hawaiian language and suppress Kanaka Maoli cultural traditions. These wartime pedagogies were more than simply an effort to educate children about language and citizenship; they constituted a repertoire for the social reproduction of settler militarism.

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