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"...theorizes Indigeneity as a performative process, challenging the notion that it can be understood in terms of a prescribed set of unchanging cultural signs. ... Indigenous identity is made up of shared community understandings about belonging that is performed and articulated in multiple settings and contexts. For Kanaka Maoli people, Teves shows that Indigeneity is represented and articulated through the idea of "aloha," a concept that is at once the most significant and most misunderstood word in the Hawaiian lexicon" --

Native Studies and Queer Studies have begun creating linkages that interrogate the normalization of heterosexuality within Native communities and the ways that settler colonialism has been unquestioned in Queer Studies scholarship. This article adds to this body of scholarship by performing a critical re-reading of the film, Ke Kulana He Māhū (2001), a film about the history of sexuality in Hawaiʻi and the role of māhūs in modern day Hawaiian culture. The film engages the struggles for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Hawaiʻi throughout the 1990s, but, curiously, it obscures the Hawaiian sovereignty movement that was happening simultaneously. Against this backdrop, I examine the rhetorical performance of aloha in the film and the dangers of harnessing Hawaiian culture to support the recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) rights. This article also examines how the film participates in visual sovereignty to foreground Kanaka Maoli commitments to cultural identity, community and belonging.

"This is an edited volume that provides definitions, meanings, and significances of select key concepts often used in Native studies. These concepts include: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nations, blood, tradition, colonialism, and indigenous epistemologies/knowledges. The manuscript is divided into eight sections, and each section includes three or four essays about one of the concepts. The essays provide an historical, social, and political context for the concepts and indicate how they have been drawn upon by scholars of Native studies." - Provided by the publisher

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: A SIGHT LINE -- I. The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights -- ONE. "As Though It Were Our Own": Against a Politics of Identification -- TWO. Juan Crow: Progressive Mutations of the Black-White Binary -- THREE. Can the Line Move? Antiblackness and a Diasporic Logic of Forced Social Epidermalization -- FOUR. (Re)producing the Nation: Treaty Rights, Gay Marriage, and the Settler State -- FIVE. Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization, and Globalization -- SIX. Critical Contradictions: A Conversation among Glen Coulthard, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See -- II. Critical Ethnic Studies Projects Meet the Neoliberal University -- SEVEN . A Better Life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education -- EIGHT. Notes from a Member of the Demographic Threat: This Is What "We Are All Palestinians" Really Means -- NINE. Restructuring, Resistance, and Knowledge Production on Campus: The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University -- TEN. "The Goal of the Revolution Is the Elimination of Anxiety": On the Right to Abundance in a Time of Artificial Scarcity -- ELEVEN. Subjugated Knowledges: Activism, Scholarship, and Ethnic Studies Ways of Knowing -- III. The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital -- TWELVE. Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin' Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery -- THIRTEEN. Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung's Creative Modalities of Resignification -- FOURTEEN. Indra Sinha's Melancholic Citizenship: Marking the Violence of Uneven Development in Animal's People -- FIFTEEN. Cocoa Chandelier's Confessional: Kanaka Maoli Performance and Aloha in Drag -- IV. Militarism, Empire, and War: The Security State and States of Insecurity -- SIXTEEN. Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention -- SEVENTEEN. Of "Mates" and Men: The Comparative Racial Politics of Filipino Naval Enlistment, circa 1941-1943 -- EIGHTEEN. The Thickening Borderlands: Bastard Mestiz@s, "Illegal" Possibilities, and Globalizing Migrant Life -- NINETEEN. Up in the Air and on the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain -- TWENTY. Empire's Verticality: The Af-Pak Frontier, Visual Culture, and Racialization from Above -- V. Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures -- TWENTY-ONE. Decolonization, "Race," and Remaindered Life under Empire -- TWENTY-TWO. Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right-Left Convergence -- TWENTY-THREE. Césaire's Gift and the Decolonial Turn -- TWENTY-FOUR. Checkered Choices, Political Assertions: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La Asociación Nacional México-Americana -- TWENTY-FIVE. Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index