Hawai'i Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawai'i-raised Black locals and Black transplants who moved to the Islands from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Nitash…
Opening Poem: "Who is the Black woman in Hawaii?" / by Kathryn Takara -- Introduction: Hawaiʻi is my Haven -- Over two centuries : the history of Black people in Hawaiʻi -- "Saltwater Negroes" : Black locals, multiracialism, and expansive Blackness -- "Less pressure" : Black tra…
"Hawaiʻi Is My Haven is the first ethnography of Hawaiʻi's Black residents, providing a contemporary and on-the-ground documentation that expands historical and military histories of the Black Pacific. Drawing from a decade of fieldwork, it addresses two questions: What does the…
Opening Poem: "Who is the Black woman in Hawaii?" / by Kathryn Takara -- Introduction: Hawaiʻi is my Haven -- Over two centuries : the history of Black people in Hawaiʻi -- "Saltwater Negroes" : Black locals, multiracialism, and expansive Blackness -- "Less pressure" : Black tra…
"Hawai°i Is My Haven is the first ethnography of Hawai°i's Black residents, providing a contemporary and on-the-ground documentation that expands historical and military histories of the Black Pacific. Drawing from a decade of fieldwork, it addresses two questions: What does the…
Hawaiʻi Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised Black locals and Black transplants who moved to the Islands from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Nitash…
"Hawaiʻi Is My Haven is the first ethnography of Hawaiʻi's Black residents, providing a contemporary and on-the-ground documentation that expands historical and military histories of the Black Pacific. Drawing from a decade of fieldwork, it addresses two questions: What does the…
"Nitasha Tamar Sharma maps the context and contours of Black life in Hawaiʻi, showing how despite the presence of anti-Black racism, the state's Black residents consider it to be their haven from racism."--
An ethnography exploring the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists.
Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics, young "hip hop desis" express a global race consciousness that reflects both their sense of connection with Blacks …
by Okamura, Jonathan Y., Yamashiro, Aiko, Arvin, Maile, Okihiro, Gary Y., Fojas, Camilla, Sharma, Nitasha Tamar, Guevarra, Rudy P., Hoomanawanui, kuualoha, Labrador, Roderick N., Lopa, Christopher Joseph, Peter, Joakim, Rosa, John P., Spickard, Paul, Tanaka, Wayne Chung