Steph | bookedinsaigon’s Reviews > From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i > Status Update

Such a good point about “intellectual colonization”: historians’ framework of Hawaiian history tells more about Western values than about Native Hawaiians themselves.

Trask makes it so clear why Pacific Islander concerns are important to the survival of the entire world.

“After the Bayonet Constitution, racist arguments about Native cultural inferiority and political and economic inability appeared daily in the haole newspapers of the times, justifying the seizure of power and the deafening calls for annexation.”

Oh look, Western empire building and rationalization is a playbook.

“Extending the American imperium into the Pacific seemed entirely natural to a people and a government seasoned by centuries of genocide against American Indians.”

SAVAGE 🔥

“Predictably, what the haole capitalists could not achieve through their much-touted system of American-style democracy, they took through another time-honored American tradition of thuggery and armed intervention.”

Omg Haunani-Kay Trask pulls absolutely NO punches, I love it.