Tag: University of Hawai’i Press

  • Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics.

  • Like a human tsunami, World War II brought two million American servicemen to the South Pacific where they left a human legacy of some thousands of children. “Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific” traces the intimate relationships that existed in the wartime South Pacific between U.S. servicemen and Indigenous women, and considers the fate of…

  • Winner of the Vic Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing.The story of an urban-based high achieving Aboriginal woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia.

  • Playing for Malaya: A Eurasian Family and the Pacific War University of Hawai‘i Press (Distributed for the National University of Singapore Press) 2011 208 pages Paper ISBN: 978-9971-69-573-6 Rebecca Kenneison Reggie, according to his niece Wendy, ‘only told what Reggie wanted you to know.’ Reggie was my father. He had honed the technique of talking…

  • Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific University of Hawai’i Press July 2009 304 pages 15 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3342-8 Fiona Paisley, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia Perspectives on the Global Past Since its inception in 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association (PPWA) has witnessed…

  • The Dance of Identities: Korean Adoptees and Their Racial Identity Journeys University of Hawai’i Press October 2010 224 pages 3 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3371-8 John D. Palmer, Associate Professor of Educational Studies Colgate University Korean adoptees have a difficult time relating to any of the racial identity models because they are people of color who…