Research Guides: Ethnic Studies/Sociology 456: Race &amp; Ethnicity in Hawaiʻi: Final Project Topics

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"The colonial carceral and prison politics in Hawaii", RaeDeen Keahiolalo-Karasuda. Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008
Most attention given to the disproportionate incarceration of Kanaka Maoli concentrates on individual criminality. Rather than examine Hawaiians as criminal subjects, I analyze the carceral as a site of colonial conquest and neocolonial subjugation. Through historical and representational texts, I argue that the legacy of carceral violence against Kanaka Maoli must be contextualized as a strategy of land theft and political usurpation. Beginning with the public hanging of the grandfather of King Kalakaua and Queen Lili'uokalani under the first written constitution of 1840, I mark the start of a codified Western legal system that subjugated Kanaka Maoli through cruel and unusual forms of punishment. I follow this discussion with an analysis of nineteenth century opium discourses used to advance the Bayonet Constitution and illegal overthrow of 1893.

"Decolonization and violence in Southeast Asia Crises of identity and authority" by K Hack (PDF)
In Beyond Empire and Nation, 2012 - library.oapen.org

How far did Southeast Asia's experience of colonialism and decolonization contribute to
severe postcolonial problems, notably: high levels of violence and endemic crises of
authority?
"Mass violence and the end of the Dutch colonial empire in Indonesia" by Bart Luttikhuis & A. Dirk Moses
Journal of Genocide Research
Volume 14, 2012 - Issue 3-4