Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i

by Ty P. Kwika Tengan

Book Overview

Many indigenous Hawaiian men have felt profoundly disempowered by the legacies of colonization and by the tourist industry, which, in addition to occupying a great deal of land, promotes a feminized image of Native Hawaiians (evident in the ubiquitous figure of the dancing hula girl). In the 1990s a group of Native men on the island of Maui responded by refashioning and reasserting their masculine identities in a group called the Hale Mua (the "Men's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822343215
• ISBN13: 9780822343219
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"