[nativestudies-l] Kauanui: The Crisis of Hawaiian Sovereignty Politics in the

[jkauanui at wesleyan.edu]

The Crisis of Hawaiian Sovereignty Politics in the "50th State"

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of American Studies and
Anthropology, Wesleyan University

4-5:30pm
ASH Auditorium (Adele Simmons Hall)
Hampshire College
November 19, 2009

Sponsored by: the Center for Feminisms, the Feminist Studies program, the
school of Social Sciences, the Dean of Students Office, the
Lebron-Wiggins-Prahn Cultural Center, and the Prescott Interns.

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is an associate professor of anthropology and
American studies at Wesleyan University, where she teaches U.S. racial
formations, Native sovereignty politics, U.S. colonialism in the Pacific
Islands, and nationalism & gender.  She earned her Ph.D. in the program of
History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 
Kauanui is the author of, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of
Indigeneity and Sovereignty (Duke University Press, 2008).   Currently,
she is working on her second book titled, Thy Kingdom Come? , which is a
critical study on gender and sexual politics vis-à-vis state-centered
Hawaiian nationalism and the disavowal of Hawaiian indigeneity.  She is
also the producer and host of a radio program, "Indigenous Politics: From
Native New England and Beyond," on W.E.S.U., Middletown, CT, which is
syndicated on five stations across seven states through the Pacifica-radio
network.  She was part of the founding steering committee for the Native
American and Indigenous Studies Association, established in 2008, and is
currently a council member serving a three year term.