Afterword
Is The Ocean a Metaphor? On the Oceanic Turn, Asian Settler Colonialism, and Filipinx Studies in Hawai‘I
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22263971 |
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| Authors | Katherine Achacoso (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Alon Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2767-4568 • E-ISSN: 2767-4568 |
| Publisher | California Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5070/ln42360552 |
| OpenAlex | W4360989551 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
changing article on "Settlers of Color and Immigrant Hegemony." 1 Intervening into previous literature on local culture and Asian diasporic experiences in Hawaii, Trask's essay trenchantly provides theoretical language to understand both the politics of Indigeneity and the role of Asian settlers in participating in settler colonial processes of Native dispossession. 2 Tracing her mook'auhau (genealogy) to Papahnaumoku and Kanaka's first ancestor Hloa, Trask provides language to specify Knaka Maoli 's genealogical relationship to ka pae ina o Hawaii. 3 In doing so, Trask clearly speaks back against the conflations made in literature on Hawaii Asian im/migrants/ Locals highlighting the legal, genealogical, and political differences between Asian immigrant movements to gain minority rights and global movements to reassert Native sovereignty. 4 Written in response to the rise of Asian settlers in American settler statecraft and in the aftermath of statehood, Trask provides us the language to critique local Asian settler politics of liberal inclusion as well as Asian settler desires to claim Hawaii through everyday habits that normalize American settler presence in the archipelago. 5 In her work, Trask uses the term "settler," and more particularly "settlers of color," as a call for more intersectional methodologies in thinking about interlapping structures of power between Kanaka and Asian settlers. 6 Subsequent publications like those of Candace Fujikane, Dean Saranillio, Eiko Kosasa, and Jonathan Okamura's work build from Trask's trenchant scholarship expanding Asian settler colonialism as a methodology to consider the anti-colonial possibilities of remapping Knaka Maoli histories with transnational Asian diasporic histories of colonization and racialization. Particularly relevant to
Archaeology · Colonialism · Linguistics · Metaphor · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Geology · Oceanography
| Highly cited | No |
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