Introduction to Asian American Studies: Final Zine Project (4) - Lauren Hendrickson - Kelli Kufta - Madi Earnshaw - Hayley Lee

American Quarterly: Aloha, Vietnam: Race and Empire in Hawai‘i’s VietnamWar Group 6: Lauren Hendrickson, Madi Earnshaw, Kelli Kufta, Hayley Lee

Key Points of the Text During the VietnamWar, Hawaii served as a staging area for the US Military. Hawaii came with the. promise of liberal inclusion for its own natives. This obscured the history of US Imperialism in the islands & renewed the forms of colonial state violence. During this time, military spending was a path to Modernization. Man emphasizes that the fortunes of American commercialism depended on a strong military presence on/around the Hawaiian Islands. The permanent military presence in Hawaii was later known as the key to US defense. This presence also secured the territory economy as the VietnamWar rea ffi rmed Hawaii’s national purpose as a bastion of US military power throughout the Pacific. The ColdWar in Asia boosted na economy around war making in Hawaii. This war also created a military - tourism complex in which 2 industries grew dependent on one other. This movement changed radicalized & gendered relations of power that often provided ‘natives’ to be. the objects of white American masculine desire. This led the people of Hawaii not to seek ‘independence,’ but to fight for equality.

TIMELINE 1898: Annexation of Hawaii 1959: Hawaii state legislature voted & passed the statehood bill 1964: US Naval destroyer Maddox came under siege in the Gulf of Tonkin by North Vietnamese patrol boats 1965: American soldiers deployed from Schofield Barracks 1966: Soldiers of National Liberation Front embark on a ‘civic action’ campaign to cultivate habits of self government 1967: First Battalion, Twentieth Infantry of the Eleventh Infantry Brigade commenced training at Kara Village 1968: President Lyndon Johnson announced activation of Army Reserve & National Guard for duty in Vietnam 1960-70s: Insurgent movements for decolonization proliferating around Pacific

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