POSSESSING POLYNESIANS by Maile Renee Arvin Paperback Self Help Business

From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polynesians Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia, […]

Possessing Polynesians by Maile Renee Arvin

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Maile Renee Arvin Possessing Polynesians (Paperback)

Seeing whiteness as indigenous to Polynesia provided white settlers with the justification needed to claim Polynesian lands and resources. Understood as possessions, Polynesians were and continue to be denied the privileges of whiteness.