... 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...