... This chapter examines the Hawaiian sovereignty movement during the early and mid-1990s to document some of the practices of gender and sexuality based exclusion, mis-recognition, and misrepresentation to provide context for reading the contemporary gestures of True Aloha, an indigenous social...

... This chapter argues that the U.S. occupation and annexation of Hawai‘i shaped a public discourse of Hawaiian dependency associating Kānaka Maoli (native Hawaiians) with moral and biological susceptibility to Hansen’s disease, commonly known as leprosy. While the eroticized discourse surrounding...

...A Note on the Use of Hawaiian and Japanese Terms ...