Maile Arvin
Biographic Data
| ID | 328197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maile Arvin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maile |
| FAMILY NAME | Arvin |
| SIGNATURE | ARVIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
We Are Not American, Still (and Maybe You're Not, Either)
Remembrance of Pacific Pasts
imperial factor' as an explanatory concept and the need to devise 'methods for the study of multicultural situations'and the value of ethnohistorical evidence for the study of Polynesian history respectively. 2Contributions to subsequent issues addressed a wide variety of approaches and methodologies, facilitated from 1985 by the introduction of a 'Comment' section explicitly 'designed as a forum for debate about historical matters raised in this…
Possessing Polynesians: The science of settler colonial whiteness in Hawaii and Oceania
"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 Hawai'i. Arvin argues that a …
Indigenous Feminist Notes on Embodying Alliance against Settler Colonialism
How can we enact meaningful forms of solidarity across Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities? This essay, which focuses specifically on the context of settler colonialism in Hawaiʻi, examines existing or potential alliances between Indigenous feminisms and transnational feminisms. Written from a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) feminist perspective, the essay looks to the foundational work of Kanaka Maoli scholar-activist Haunani-Kay Trask as a…
The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Mele Murals
The Polynesian Problem and Its Genomic Solutions
Indigenous Feminisms Roundtable
Daniel Rivers and Karen J. Leong, members of the Transnational Feminisms Summer Institute Program Committee, organized this roundtable to address the absence of Indigenous feminisms from feminist discussions of the transnational, even though many Indigenous nations in the Americas are themselves traversed by settler colonial nationstates, and most American Indians and First Nations peoples are binational, being citizens of sovereign states as wel…
Acting Like a White Person Acting Like a Native: Ghostly Performances of Global Indigeneity
Still in the Blood: Gendered Histories of Race, Law, and Science in Day v. Apoliona
This essay examines the construction of the "Part-Hawaiian" in early twentieth-century eugenic science and law, as well as the legal legacies of that construction for Native Hawaiians today. The article focuses on the Day v. Apoliona case (2005-10), in which five Native Hawaiian men sued the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for failing to enforce a strict blood quantum policy that defines "native Hawaiians" as being "of not less than one-half part bloo…
Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy
The article explores two intertwined ideas: that the United States is a settler colonial nation-state and that settler colonialism has been and continues to be a gendered process. The article engages Native feminist theories to excavate the deep connections between settler colonialism and heteropatriarchy, highlighting five central challenges that Native feminist theories pose to gender and women's studies. From problematizing settler colonialism…
Indigenous Feminisms Roundtable
Daniel Rivers and Karen J. Leong, members of the Transnational Feminisms Summer Institute Program Committee, organized this roundtable to address the absence of Indigenous feminisms from feminist discussions of the transnational, even though many Indigenous nations in the Americas are themselves traversed by settler colonial nationstates, and most American Indians and First Nations peoples are binational, being citizens of sovereign states as wel…
Still in the Blood: Gendered Histories of Race, Law, and Science in Day v. Apoliona
This essay examines the construction of the "Part-Hawaiian" in early twentieth-century eugenic science and law, as well as the legal legacies of that construction for Native Hawaiians today. The article focuses on the Day v. Apoliona case (2005-10), in which five Native Hawaiian men sued the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for failing to enforce a strict blood quantum policy that defines "native Hawaiians" as being "of not less than one-half part bloo…
Indigenous Feminist Notes on Embodying Alliance against Settler Colonialism
How can we enact meaningful forms of solidarity across Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities? This essay, which focuses specifically on the context of settler colonialism in Hawaiʻi, examines existing or potential alliances between Indigenous feminisms and transnational feminisms. Written from a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) feminist perspective, the essay looks to the foundational work of Kanaka Maoli scholar-activist Haunani-Kay Trask as a…
Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy
The article explores two intertwined ideas: that the United States is a settler colonial nation-state and that settler colonialism has been and continues to be a gendered process. The article engages Native feminist theories to excavate the deep connections between settler colonialism and heteropatriarchy, highlighting five central challenges that Native feminist theories pose to gender and women's studies. From problematizing settler colonialism…
The Polynesian Problem and Its Genomic Solutions
Indigenous Feminisms Roundtable
Daniel Rivers and Karen J. Leong, members of the Transnational Feminisms Summer Institute Program Committee, organized this roundtable to address the absence of Indigenous feminisms from feminist discussions of the transnational, even though many Indigenous nations in the Americas are themselves traversed by settler colonial nationstates, and most American Indians and First Nations peoples are binational, being citizens of sovereign states as wel…
Acting Like a White Person Acting Like a Native: Ghostly Performances of Global Indigeneity
Still in the Blood: Gendered Histories of Race, Law, and Science in Day v. Apoliona
This essay examines the construction of the "Part-Hawaiian" in early twentieth-century eugenic science and law, as well as the legal legacies of that construction for Native Hawaiians today. The article focuses on the Day v. Apoliona case (2005-10), in which five Native Hawaiian men sued the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for failing to enforce a strict blood quantum policy that defines "native Hawaiians" as being "of not less than one-half part bloo…
Mele Murals
The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Possessing Polynesians: The science of settler colonial whiteness in Hawaii and Oceania
"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 Hawai'i. Arvin argues that a …
Indigenous Feminist Notes on Embodying Alliance against Settler Colonialism
How can we enact meaningful forms of solidarity across Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities? This essay, which focuses specifically on the context of settler colonialism in Hawaiʻi, examines existing or potential alliances between Indigenous feminisms and transnational feminisms. Written from a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) feminist perspective, the essay looks to the foundational work of Kanaka Maoli scholar-activist Haunani-Kay Trask as a…
Remembrance of Pacific Pasts
imperial factor' as an explanatory concept and the need to devise 'methods for the study of multicultural situations'and the value of ethnohistorical evidence for the study of Polynesian history respectively. 2Contributions to subsequent issues addressed a wide variety of approaches and methodologies, facilitated from 1985 by the introduction of a 'Comment' section explicitly 'designed as a forum for debate about historical matters raised in this…
We Are Not American, Still (and Maybe You're Not, Either)
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works)