Home : Book details

Gateway State: Hawai i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire (Politics and Society in Modern America, 3) free ebook download

Category:
History

Views: 41
Likes: 5

Catalogue

Author(s):	Sarah Miller-Davenport

Date:	2024	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0691181233
Pages:	296	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
Uploader:	topron	Upload Date:	10/26/2023 1:02:10 AM

To download click on link in the Links Table below

Description: Click to see full description

How Hawai'i became an emblem of multiculturalism during its journey to statehood in the mid-twentieth century

Gateway State explores the development of Hawai'i as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of decolonization. The establishment of Hawai'i statehood in 1959 was a watershed moment, not only in the ways Americans defined their nations role on the international stage but also in the ways they understood the problems of social difference at home. Hawai'is remarkable transition from territory to state heralded the emergence of postwar multiculturalism, which was a response both to independence movements abroad and to the limits of civil rights in the United States.

Once a racially problematic overseas colony, by the 1960s, Hawai'i had come to symbolize John F. Kennedys New Frontier. This was a more inclusive idea of who counted as American at home and what areas of the world were considered to be within the U.S. sphere of influence. Statehood advocates argued that Hawai'i and its majority Asian population could serve as a bridge to Cold War Asiaand as a global showcase of American democracy and racial harmony. In the aftermath of statehood, business leaders and policymakers worked to institutionalize and sell this ideal by capitalizing on Hawai'is diversity. Asian Americans in Hawai'i never lost a perceived connection to Asia. Instead, their ethnic difference became a marketable resource to help other Americans navigate a decolonizing world.

As excitement over statehood dimmed, the utopian vision of Hawai'i fell apart, revealing how racial inequality and U.S. imperialism continued to shape the fiftieth stateand igniting a backlash against the islands white-dominated institutions.
Read more

Links Table

	Title	Link	Password	Size (MB)	Thank to	Inform Admin
3207723	Book	https://nitroflare.com/view/42DB4A4BA8C7...		0.00	topron

Tags: American Cultural Empire Gateway Hawai Modern Politics Society State Transformation

Title	Link	Password	Size	Reason

Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books:
Comments

New comment:

Gateway State: Hawai i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire (Politics and Society in Modern America, 3) free ebook download

Category: History

Description: Click to see full description

Category:
History