Bringing the Marginalized into Conversations about American Raciality - Erin Kane - Keely Gaeta - Emily Norris

“ A L OHA , V I E T NAM : R A C E AND EMP I R E I N HAWA I ’ I ’ S V I E T NAM WA R ” ( S I ME ON MAN )

The Anti-War movement in Hawai'i was rooted in anti- militarism. Hawai'i has long been depicted as a paradisiacal location, when the reality that many locals and Natives to Hawai'i has endured the state's transformation into a "military garrison". These sentiments fueled the anti-war movements, as well as movements for Hawaiian soverignty. A physical manifestation of these anti-war sentiments took place on the island of Kaho'olawe, where Native activists protested the islands use for military bombing, under the general demands for the protection of Native land frommilitary use and destruction. The disregard for Hawaiian land by the U.S. military proved to be a driving motivator for the protesting of imperialist practices that sought to subjugate those native to the land being invaded and used as a tool for U.S. gain.

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