Hawai'i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific

by Nitasha Tamar Sharma

Hawaiʻi Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised Black locals and Black transplants who moved to the Islands from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Nitasha Tamar Sharma highlights the paradox of Hawaiʻi as a multiracial paradise and site of unacknowledged anti-Black racism. While Black culture is ubiquitous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147801346X
• ISBN13: 9781478013464
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"