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Re: race theoriesJ. Kehaulani Kauanui (j.kauanui@AUCKLAND.AC.NZ)Thu, 20 Oct 1994 17:10:32 +1200
online in the thick of some really sinister stuff. Hot for a talk show maybe... These same issues arose in 1991 at UC Berkeley with Professor Vincent Sarich's --in the Department of Anthropology--assertions that brain size and intelligence with regard to race and gender could also be linked to the retention rates for students of color. Of course there was no mention that the fees to attend the UC schools were increased 40%... Racial classifications themselves have been flexible over time and closely related to the agenda of the ruling government. While Native Hawaiians are still subjected to a 50% blood quantum rule, imposed by US federal and state of Hawaii governments--we have also been classified simultaneously as "Asian Pacific" and "Native American". Michael Omi's book _Racial Classification in the US_ is interesting, though he doesn't mention Pacific peoples under US policy. Mahalo--(thanks) to Lieber's comments regarding the issues recently raised on this network. Like Elaine Winters who inquired, I too am interested in materials on diasporic Pacific Islanders. I am currently examining census assessments of Kanaka Maoli living off-island. I am interested in dialogues around indigenous nationalisms, community formations of indigenous peoples displaced from their traditional lands, structures for self-governance and decolonization, oceanic sexualities and colonization, and other issues of contemporary Pacific politics. -J. Kehaulani Kauanui c/o Department of Maori Studies Private Bag University of Auckland Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland Aotearoa/New Zealand
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