FEMST 60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Angela Davis, Hypodescent, Infant Mortality
Document Summary
Hawaiians have u. s. citizenship rights but only as a result of u. s. colonization didn"t want to be u. s. citizens bc want to be independent of u. s: u. s. Citizenship rights haven"t been enough to problems in late. Environmental poisoning (testing nuclear & atomic bombs on native lands) Women"s mana and hawaiian sovereignty- trask: rejecting controlling images of hawaiians; doesn"t come naturally bc dominant narrative of america as egalitarian, free, inalienable rights. Reject cultural habits (pledge of allegiance), english, cultural ideals of whiteness, etc. Decolonizing the mind vs cultural revival : native hawaiian women"s cultural & political mana exercised on behalf of people & land. Must preserve & protect land bc linked to ancestral value of caring for people and land. Native reenactment that hawaii is the mother and natives are the children: native hawaiian men more likely to hold power (patriarchy, social change not based on domination control; create societies community wants, native sovereignty projects: self-sufficiency, subsistence farming.
