Co-presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and NYU Native Studies Forum.
We’re honored to host in conversation about their new books three brilliant scholars in the fields of Native and Indigenous Studies.
Julian Aguon’s (University of Guam) The Properties of Perpetual Light (University of Guam Press, 2021) seamlessly blends vivid poetic language with sharp observations on activism in an era defined by climate change and militarization, and was described by Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker as a book that “warms the heart and moves the spirit.”
In Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawaiʻi and Oceania (Duke University Press, 2019), Maile Arvin (University of Utah) explores how white settlers’ insistence that Indigenous Pacific Islanders were “almost white” fueled the fiction that the land, resources, and bodies of Native people belonged to their colonizers.
In Remembering Our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), lauded as “the moʻolelo that queer Natives have been waiting for,” Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio (UH at Mānoa) embarks on an eye-opening excavation of the term aloha ʻaina, salvaging it from colonial historiography and presenting it as an idea rooted in intimacy, heritage, and freedom.
Moderated by professor of history Kealani Cook (UH at West Oʻahu).
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