How to demolish racism : lessons from the state of Hawai'i / Michael Haas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haas, Michael, 1938- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harmony (Philosophy)--Social aspects--Hawaii.

Harmony (Philosophy).

Social conditions.

Ethnic relations.

Race relations.

Social aspects.

Hawaii--Race relations.

Hawaii.

Hawaii--Ethnic relations.

Hawaii--History.

History.

Hawaii--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xiii, 393 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

How to Demolish Racism describes racist rule in Hawai'i during the first half of the twentieth century and how statehood made possible a fundamental transformation. Based on a multicultural ethos, lop political power shifted from Whites to Japanese and later to other racial groups. Racism was eliminated in the economy, environmental policies were modified, government operations became more multicultural, and the desires of Native Hawaiians to recover what had been lost horn the days of the Kingdom of Hawai'i were placed on legal and political agendas. Lven before statehood, Hawai'i's example of school integration gave birth to the movement resulting in Brown v Board of Education. Afterward, the Aloha State was the first to adopt many reforms: unrestricted abortion, universal health care insurance, an Equal Rights Amendment, a State Ombudsman, neighborhood boards, classifying Whiles as a "minority" in affirmative action, banning strip searches of females, and dozens of other innovative reforms that have been adopted elsewhere, Hawai'i remains the only state that is officially bilingual, has required mediation before foreclosures, celebrates an Islam Day, prohibits discrimination based on credit history and breastfeeding, bans smoking until the age of twenty-one, disallows plastic bags, has declared an end to the use of fossil fuels by 2045, and has adopted many other measures that lead the world. Having refined the social contract between the people and government, the Aloha Stale today provides leadership for the United States and elsewhere on how to engage in reverse cultural engineering, the unrecognized basis for legal systems around the world, so that racism can be demolished. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Introduction 1

1 Mission and Achievements 3

Part II Historic Challenges 9

2 A Kingdom Falls 11

3 Territorial Traumas 19

Part III Transition Period 43

4 Wartime Heroism 45

5 The Struggle for Statehood 55

Part IV Developing Racial Harmony 67

6 Cultural Transformation 69

7 Overcoming Political Racism 97

8 Overcoming Economic Racism 129

9 Overcoming Racist Environmental Policy 155

10 Dismantling Institutional Discrimination 185

11 Decolonization and Renaissance 237

Part V Engineering Racial Harmony 269

12 A Model for the World 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-357) and index.

ISBN:

9781498543200

1498543200

OCLC:

951506598