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Groundbreaking study.......2000-07-26
Womack's book is the most provocative and important study of Native American literature since Arnold Krupat's Ethnocriticism in 1992. It is the first to really show what a tribally centered criticism can look like, and offers a remarkable synthesis of work by other Native scholars. While he is occasionally too dismissive of non-Natives, he is also funny, subtle, and persuasive in writing.
Briliant and funny.......2000-06-17
Craig Womak's "Red on Red" is a briliant analysis of the current state of Native Literature. He gives the reader insights and guidance for understanding native writers, and a scholar can learn the much needed literary foundations for learning to "read" native writers. THEN, just to prove that even criticism is fun, he changes up in mid-stream and offers extremely hilarious narratives, written from his own Creek roots. Very fun to read, and an engaging writer.
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Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920
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Kane explores the role of religious identity in Boston in the years 1900-1920, arguing that Catholicism was a central integrating force among different class and ethnic groups. She traces the effect of changing class status on religious identity and solidarity, and she delineates the social and cultural meaning of Catholicism in a city where Yankee Protestant nativism persisted even as its hegemony was in decline.
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In this first ground-level account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines, Thomas McKenna challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. He examines Muslim separatism against a background of more than four hundred years of political relations among indigenous Muslim rulers, their subjects, and external powers seeking the subjugation of Philippine Muslims. He also explores the motivations of the ordinary men and women who fight in armed separatist struggles and investigates the formation of nationalist identities. A skillful meld of historical detail and ethnographic research, Muslim Rulers and Rebels makes a compelling contribution to the study of protest, rebellion, and revolution worldwide.
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Believable Account of Moro Separatism.......2003-04-15
This volume gives us an interesting ethnography of an impoverished slum in Cotabato City called Campo Muslim. The author protracts his study of the slum to encompass anthropological contributions to understanding Gramscian hegemony, nationalism, colonial histories, formation of new, post-traditional elites, and subaltern resistance. Most useful in this book is the account of the construction of Muslim national identity and the account of the elections in the late 80s wherein the Muslim and Islamist participants made an unexpectedly poor showing giving most of the victories to Christian candidates. Parts of the book are uneven; however, the account is consistent to his methodology from the outside and he allows the information to lead him--always be circumspect that ideology or presuppositions don't lead his interpretations by the nose at least in matters of peasant politics. In other words, the peasant remains an autonomous political actor that doesn't merely parrot and conform to the requests of the socially more advantaged.
The most glaring flaw in the book was what I personally found to be an over-identification with Muslim Filippinos over and against Christian Filippinos. Armed separatist movements are portrayed sympathetically, whereas 'Christian' efforts, whether in terms of national integration, militant attemtps to stop succession, and even charity are treated as all being pernicious acts directed against Muslims. One example was the characterization of Mother Theresa's charity for children in the city as being 'perverse' without any such acerbic criticisms for the vicious effects of separatism movement and the deaths it caused given. The same goes for foreign actors. In the work, American actions in the Philippines are sinister and undermine Philippine Muslim identity; whereas, Libyan, Saudi Arabian, and Egyptian interference are merely catalysts for social change.
Provocative -- for both Muslims and Christian Filipinos.......2002-04-25
I'd been flying to and from Cotabato City, the site of Mckenna's research, almost every month for last few months. I'm a Catholic, but the fact is, if you are on business in Cotabato City, you talk to and deal with Muslims. The Muslims I met, Maguindanaons for the most part, were personable and likeable. They're nothing like the vagabond bad guys I heard about from my elders in the 70s, my growing up years and the years of the war in Mindanao.
I also have Catholic relatives who've been there since the 1930s. In one of the early chapters of his book, McKenna wrote that many Christians in Cotabato City knew next to nothing about how Muslims really live and what Muslims really are because they choose not to know.
I believe he's correct since what my Christian cousins and friends say, which is sometimes patronizing and not at all complimentary, do not seem to mesh with what I know of the Muslims I've met in the course of work. In my conversations with my Muslim associates, they eagerly welcome inquiries about what Islam is all about but they are not about to insist that you convert to Islam.
But then again, my cousins and friends been living there for years on end so they should know what they're talking about, right? These days, Cotabato City is a city unlike any I've been to in the Philippines, even among the bigger cities in Mindanao. There is an almost equal number of Christians and Muslims and the physical features of the city reflect this.
I have yet to test this theory, but I think McKenna's book might prove provocative to Muslims who espouse separatism or federalism (as a "softer" form of separatism). McKenna traces the beginnings of a separate Muslim identity to gentle tending by American educators of young Muslim minds who went on to become national leaders and local datus.
I'll be sending a copy of the book to a conservative Muslim Maguindanaon who had some harsh words to say about the 1898 Treaty of Paris and the Americans who governed Mindanao thereafter. It would be interesting to find out what he thinks after reading Mckenna, who wrote mostly of his people, the Maguindanaons.
On another level, I believe this book should be required reading for all Filipinos. Our required history courses concentrate too much on Philippine history in Luzon and the Visayas. We Christian Filipinos hardly know anything about Mindanao except that our national hero, Jose Rizal, was exiled in Dapitan in Zamboanga. (Now, what we know is that Basilan, also in Western Mindanao is the site of the Balikatan activities of American and Filipino soldiers against the Abu Sayyaf, and that Zamboanga is the city center for the Americans.)
The reasons for the rebellion of Christian Filipinos against Spanish and American rule are analyzed to death in our history books and even given symbolic parallels to the Passion of Christ. But no narration even of the Mindanao rebellion against colonial rule is part of our required reading in Philippine history.
During one visit to Cotabato City, an old Maguindanaoan lady proudly told me, a Filipina Catholic from Luzon with a Spanish name and an American education, that her people had never been colonized unlike my forebears. I had nothing to say. But I would be honored if she considered me her countrywoman in spite of everything.
Just the other night, I watched a documentary feature of a battle fought to the death by Maranaos, another Muslim group, against the Americans in 1902 in the town of Bayang in Lanao del Sur. After the battle, only five Maranao men were left alive. Even women and children were killed, their bodies dumped in the trenches. Around 10 American soldiers were killed. American sources tell the story that towards the end of the battle, a white flag was flown outside the fort in Bayang. Thus, they say, the Maranaos surrendered. Actually, among Muslims, a white flag is flown to indicate a death.
Excellent understanding of the region and its people........1999-10-13
Dr. McKenna has obviously spent a great deal of time and study in the southern Philippines. His insights are thought-provoking. I highly recommend this book.
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Racist paganism is a thriving but understudied element of the American religious and cultural landscape. Gods of the Blood is the first in-depth survey of the people, ideologies, and practices that make up this fragmented yet increasingly radical and militant milieu. Over a five-year period during the 1990s Mattias Gardell observed and participated in pagan ceremonies and interviewed pagan activists across the United States. His unprecedented entree into this previously obscure realm is the basis for this firsthand account of the proliferating web of organizations and belief systems combining pre-Christian pagan mythologies with Aryan separatism. Gardell outlines the historical development of the different strands of racist paganismâincluding Wotanism, Odinism and Darkside Asatrúâand situates them on the spectrum of pagan belief ranging from Wicca and goddess worship to Satanism.
Gods of the Blood details the trends that have converged to fuel militant paganism in the United States: anti-government sentiments inflamed by such events as Ruby Ridge and Waco, the rise of the white power music industry (including whitenoise, dark ambient, and hatecore), the extraordinary reach of modern communications technologies, and feelings of economic and cultural marginalization in the face of globalization and increasing racial and ethnic diversity of the American population. Gardell elucidates how racist pagan beliefs are formed out of various combinations of conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism, warrior ideology, populism, beliefs in racial separatism, Klandom, skinhead culture, and tenets of national socialism. He shows how these convictions are further animated by an array of thought selectively derived from thinkers including Nietzche, historian Oswald Spengler, Carl Jung, and racist mystics. Scrupulously attentive to the complexities of racist paganism as it is lived and practiced, Gods of the Blood is a fascinating, disturbing, and important portrait of the virulent undercurrents of certain kinds of violence in America today.
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ASATRU was pilfered by the white fellers.......2006-08-06
good to read so you can understand how an alarmingly large (but divisive) group of white euro-fellers "think"....or should we say "follow"....follow the leader, wishful thinking, sieg heil and......forget that there ARE no races...
only the one and only Human RACE....to see diversity of human types (archetypally or biologically) as racial divisions is the product of using simply cognition....and what's that, bout 5% of human potential.
folks who subscribe to this narrow line of thought need to move to Idaho...if they're not already there. what a sad commentary that people still fall for this. even highly intelligent folks fall for it.
In one word: comprehensive.......2006-07-05
This is by far the most comprehensive book yet written on the various underlying pseudo-religious, occult, and pagan currents that motivate today's white nationalist and white separatist movements. At times it may be difficult to read, not because of a lack of lyrical prose, but due to the extreme amount of information that the author packs into these densely written pages.
When read in conjunction with such books as "Black Sun" and "The Occult Roots of Nazism" by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, "Dreamer of the Day" by Kevin Coogan, and "The Enemy of My Enemy" by George Michael, the reader will have an extremely strong understanding of the contemporary white nationalist and separatist movement.
As for Wyatt Kaldenberg's absurd attempt at a "review," the reader should note that Kaldenberg is discussed in this book, in particular his association with the White Aryan Resistance organization based out of California. And Odinism is only one of many strains of pseudo-religious thought discussed in this book...
A very good book for what it sets out to do.......2005-11-30
I was very surprised to see the multiple bad reviews of this book. The book is NOT about "Odinism" as it is practiced in what would be considered "normal" homes. It doesn't profess to be about "Odinism" in that manner. Read the title again, this time with feeling. It's about how Asatru/Odinism/the Pagan Revival has become home to a growing subsection of the White Separatist movement.
He uses the term "Odinism" as terminology to help separate out what he considers to be three distinct threads in the Asatru community (such as it is). I think that he makes an interesting case, although other might disagree. However, you must understand that he is, specifically, writing about groups of racist Asatru practitioners.
You wouldn't buy a book about "Christian Identity", and then rage that the author was misrepresenting Christianity as a racist religion. Don't make that mistake with this book either.
This book is not about Asatru. It is about the theft of the trappings of Asatru........2005-09-09
The prose, while difficult is not a real obstacle to this text. Primarily this book is not about paganism, Asatru, or those communities, rather it is about how the trappings of these things that have been co-opted by White Separatists in North America. The bulk of the text is used to establish the context of how this has come about. With so many Americans having no real knowledge of the White Separatist movement it is important for the author to explain the progression of Ariosophy and later Christian Identity into the realm of racists adopting Asatru trappings esp. those of the 'folkish' type.
By the last third, when Gardell really gets into the modern racist/pagan crossover the reader should understand that these are not your typical pagans. These are a group of ideologically inbred folk who are seeking to escape the faith they can not justify and replace it with something that better fits their ideals. Let's be honest, "Love those that hate you," is harder than hell to justify if you hate everyone not like you. So the adoption of a form of Asatru as, 'the religion of the Aryan people,' is easy to understand. The in had been around for a long time in the form of the racialist or more folkish Asatru and Odinians like Edred Thorsson.
For this I must say that I found the presentation of Edred Thorsson's position to be sympathetic. Gardell apparently just let Thorsson talk about his perspective, one that has been presented elsewhere by Edred, often in his own books, and quoted him. Thorsson has long held that individuals should honor the gods and goddesses of their own ancestors. This position, while having a certain ethnic-heritage logic is not one that lends itself to the principles of liberal tolerance that we so often hear from the pagan community. I found no attack on either Thorrson or racialist pagans to be present. Perhaps many of the reviewers who did might want to consider why they feel so strongly about an academic text that presents very little commentary until the conclusion where you may disagree with his analysis but frankly there is not much of that.
My favorite criticism that seems to be labeled at this book though is the clear Marxist/post-modernist biases so many seem to find here. Gardell starts with early American commentaries on race and how the perception of race has changed over the last two and a half centuries. From Ben Franklin referring to, "swarthy Swedes," and their inferiority to the white race (read WASP) to the modern madness of skin tone determining race he seems well-justified in the declaring of race a cultural construct. For the review by Prometheus all I have to say is that just over a century and a half ago the Irish were considered to be nothing more than, 'white-niggers,' by the English and less than dogs in the States when they fled an artificial, state-created famine. The Irish race was damn real then, but now they are just white. Get a grip. Gardell is just establishing that at its core the term racist really means anyone who believes in the validity of the theory of race at any level. They may not be bigots, but for this text they are racists. That is neither a Marxist nor a post-modernist position in itself; it is just demonstrable fact that bites into an ideology that is untenable. This makes it much like both Marxism and post-modernism.
This book is for everyone. It is a clear and cogent history of the theologies that have been used to justify racist theories. It should be used as a wake-up call to the Asatru community that one day some idiots are going to get some real media attention for some bombing or high-profile assassination and they will shape what the public believes Asatru to be. It is a PR nightmare that could be diffused if the Asatru community really got its act together and started not merely distancing itself from this kind of stupidity but was seen to castigate and berate the forms of racist Asatru that Gardell looks at.
By the last third, when Gardell really gets into the modern racist/pagan crossover the reader should understand that these are not your typical pagans. These are a group of ideologically inbred folk who are seeking to escape the faith they can not justify and replace it with something that better fits their ideals. Let's be honest, "Love those that hate you," is harder than hell to justify if you hate everyone not like you. So the adoption of a form of Asatru as, 'the religion of the Aryan people,' is easy to understand. The in had been around for a long time in the form of the racialist or more folkish Asatru and Odinians like Edred Thorsson.
For this I must say that I found the presentation of Edred Thorsson's position to be sympathetic. Gardell apparently just let Thorsson talk about his perspective, one that has been presented elsewhere by Edred, often in his own books, and quoted him. Thorsson has long held that individuals should honor the gods and goddesses of their own ancestors. This position, while having a certain ethnic-heritage logic is not one that lends itself to the principles of liberal tolerance that we so often hear from the pagan community. I found no attack on either Thorrson or racialist pagans to be present. Perhaps many of the reviewers who did might want to consider why they feel so strongly about an academic text that presents very little commentary until the conclusion where you may disagree with his analysis but frankly there is not much of that.
My favorite criticism that seems to be labeled at this book though is the clear Marxist/post-modernist biases so many seem to find here. Gardell starts with early American commentaries on race and how the perception of race has changed over the last two and a half centuries. From Ben Franklin referring to, "swarthy Swedes," and their inferiority to the white race (read WASP) to the modern madness of skin tone determining race he seems well-justified in the declaring of race a cultural construct. For the review by Prometheus all I have to say is that just over a century and a half ago the Irish were considered to be nothing more than, 'white-niggers,' by the English and less than dogs in the States when they fled an artificial, state-created famine. The Irish race was damn real then, but now they are just white. Get a grip. Gardell is just establishing that at its core the term racist really means anyone who believes in the validity of the theory of race at any level. They may not be bigots, but for this text they are racists. That is neither a Marxist nor a post-modernist position in itself; it is just demonstrable fact that bites into an ideology that is untenable. This makes it much like both Marxism and post-modernism.
This book is for everyone. It is a clear and cogent history of the theologies that have been used to justify racist theories. It should be used as a wake-up call to the Asatru community that one day some idiots are going to get some real media attention for some bombing or high-profile assassination and they will shape what the public believes Asatru to be. It is a PR nightmare that could be diffused if the Asatru community really got its act together and started not merely distancing itself from this kind of stupidity but was seen to castigate and berate the forms of racist Asatru that Gardell looks at.
Thank you!.......2005-01-18
It is good to finally see a book that expose the deeply rooted racism in the american asatru-community.As a scandinavian heathen,I'm soooo glad that we over here is 100% free of that crap.I'll recommend it to all my american heathen friends,who themselves could add more details to what is told in this book.
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The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and GarveyÕs most devoted and loyal followers were found in the southern Black Belt. Rolinson remaps the movement to include this vital but overlooked region, and offers a view of what southern Garveyites were like. Even after the UNIA had all but disappeared in the South in the 1930s, she says, the movement's tenets of race organization, unity, and pride continued to flourish in other forms of black protest for generations.
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- Hawaiian Apartheid Developing Under the Race Based Police State
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Hawaiian Apartheid - Racial Separatism and Ethnic Nationalism in the Aloha State
Kenneth, R. Conklin
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This book seeks to awaken the public to the dangers of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. A gathering storm of racial separatism and ethnic nationalism threatens not only the people of Hawaii but the entire United States. The Hawaiian Government Reorganization bill, also known as the "Akaka bill" (currently S.310 and H.R.505), threatens to set a precedent for ethnic balkanization throughout America. It seeks to create a racially exclusionary government using federal and state land and money. Hawaii's independence activists want to rip the 50th star off the flag, either by international efforts or through the economic and political power the Akaka bill would give ethnic Hawaiians as a group. This book begins with an in-depth description and analysis of racial separatism and ethnic nationalism in today's Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Then it analyzes historical grievances, and the junk science of current victimhood claims, fueling the Hawaiian grievance industry. The book analyzes anti-military and anti-American activity. It describes the dangers of claims to indigenous rights, and why those claims are bogus in Hawaii. The book analyzes some Hawaiian sovereignty frauds including a billion dollars in Hawaiian Kingdom government bonds, the "Perfect Title" land title scam, and the "World Court" scam. The closing chapter offers hope for the future, describing an action agenda. Ken Conklin, author, has a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He has lived in Hawaii since 1992. He has devoted full time for 15 years to studying Hawaiian history, culture, and language, and the Hawaiian sovereignty movement; and speaks Hawaiian with moderate fluency. He is a scholar and civil rights activist working to protect unity, equality, and aloha for all. He has published numerous essays in newspapers, appeared on television and radio, taught a course on Hawaiian sovereignty at the University of Hawaii, and maintains a large website.
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Hawaiian Apartheid Developing Under the Race Based Police State.......2007-10-06
This book Hawaiian Apartheid introduced this week on Molokai, the remote Hawaiian island that is considered the center of the Race based Hawaiian Sovereignty movement. It should cause people to re-think the future of Hawaii for everyone.
I think the book of the Year for everyone in Hawaii and across the Nation is "Hawaiian Apartheid: Racial Separatism and Ethnic Nationalism," by Ken Conklin, Ph.D. It is essential reading for everyone who desires pono and aloha throughout Hawaii, Race notwithstanding.
More social myth shattering than "Broken Trust" and fully documented, this dramatic and informative expose of modern day Race based Hawaiian social engineering and historical revisionism will shatter the false images of Hawaii's status quo power brokers at Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Kamehameha Schools, University of Hawaii, DHHL, over 160 racially exclusive federal programs, charter schools, immersion schools; and a proposal for racial separatist government through the Akaka bill by corrupt lieing politicians and media using divisive tactics to maintain their power, as it brings the earthshaking facts that amount to nothing less than the development of Hawaiian apartheid in Hawaii against the makaainana of Hawaii, and what it means for people with no native blood.
At the end of Hawaiian Apartheid, author Conklin, who is fluent in Hawaiian language and obviously cares deeply for Hawaii-nei, offers soul searching, inspiring suggestions on how everyone can act to restore pono, unity, equality and aloha throughout Hawaii, regardless of Race.
Reading Hawaiian Apartheid may inspire American Citizens in Hawaii to make a revolution against the growing menace of the usurping-paux-governor and convicted felon Linda Lingle's Race Based Police State of Hawaii; and, to restore a true republican form of government, restore individual sovereignty and equality under law, guaranteed to each of us by the Constitution for the United States of America. Check it out at the Molokai Public Library now, or buy your own copy: Hawaiian Apartheid: Racial Separatism and Ethnic Nationalism in the Aloha State by Kenneth R. Conklin
Kenneth Conklin eats sacred cows for breakfast.......2007-07-06
The self-published "Hawaiian Apartheid" is a controversial work which seeks to expose the Hawaiian sovereignty movement as ethno-political activism fueling racial discord.
Conklin is good at denouncing ethnic posturing and its use for political gain. He argues the Akaka Bill would give ethnic Hawaiians what some say would constitute political supremacy and goes to great length explaining how historical spin is used to influence politics. With focus mainly on the manipulation of language to influence public opinion, the chapters devoted to the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy could have made a solid endictment of historical revisionism. Sadly the author chose to spin the US takeover of 1893 as something most Hawaiians welcomed. There is danger in mixing personal bias with history.
Although filled with verifiable facts the section on history is equally replete with personal and often humoristic observations that seem inappropriate.
Nevertheless an excellent observation and analysis of the contradictions of the Aloha state and a thought-provoking view from one side of an ever widening racial divide.
Sandwich Isles Communications.......2007-05-06
I haven't read Mr. Conklin's book, but I want to put my .02 in regards to
Sandwich Isles Communications. It has deeply frustrated me for years that
SIC was able to get 400 million in USDA RUS loans to build a fiber-optic
network serving only DHHL lands. Which I find racially discriminatory
since all taxpayers are paying for this network.
Hawaiian Telcom already services some DHHL areas already. So this is
hugely wasteful use of taxpayer money. Even more so since NexTel has
gotten on this gravy train serving DHHL areas too and getting repaid
by the USF.
The 400 million will be repaid by the Universal Service Fund. In short,
all taxpayers and everyone who has a land line is paying for this boondoggle project.Worse yet, the USDA RUS will be covering any start-up expenses and other costs.
He's just the messenger.......2007-05-02
Ken Conklin has done an admirable job over the years researching and reporting on the history of Hawaii, and the falsehoods and myths of the native Hawaiian sovereignty movement. His book represents the collection of years of knowledge seeking, and presents source material that directly refutes the claims of victimhood perpetuated by those who would divide Hawaii on the basis of race.
Reading the reviews from people who disagree with his stance but have obviously never read his work is all too typical of the reaction he has gotten for learning and sharing the truth. The truth is, the Kingdom of Hawaii was unified and founded by both Kamehameha and John Young. The truth is, the Kingdom of Hawaii declared all men to be "of one blood" in its first constitution, and treated the races equally over a hundred years before our own civil rights movement in the U.S.
As to the review which denigrates the Morgan Report and mistakenly cites Kuykendall for support, Kuykendall described Blount's report as a "lawyer's brief, making the best possible case for the queen and against Stevens." The historian said the Morgan Report "presented an equally effective case for the Provisional Government and Stevens, and against the Queen." Regarding assertions that no Hawaiian political activist has ever been violent, one must note both the Wilcox rebellion of 1889 and 1895, as well as the recent violent beating of a young white couple in a parking lot in Hawaii by a native Hawaiian and his family. Common? Thankfully not. Inspired by the hatred that Conklin describes? Certainly so.
For those interested in learning the truth, please, read on. You might also enjoy "Hawaiian Sovereignty:Do the facts matter?" by Thurston Twigg-Smith, and "The Unconquerable Rebel" by Andrade.
A Reaction To Facing One's Own Guilt and Privilege.......2007-04-27
I am a Native Hawaiian meaning that I am part of the Hawaiian Geneology and I also have a Ph.D. I am not Hawaiian the same way I would say I am Californian if I lived in California. I mentioned the Ph.D. because Ken Conklin mentions his and I want to see more Hawaiians with Ph.D.s defining themselves and their history. I am also part white. I've grown up seeing at least two sides to every story. So imagine my hurt and disappointment when I see this side of the story. A story about somebody who wants to rob what little is left of the Hawaiian people: namely their identity. Hawaii was once it's own kingdom where the majority of people were Hawaiian, lived in harmony with the land, and spoke the Hawaiian language. Today they are minorities in their own ancestral home and frequently struggle with the ills that frequently accompany the long term consequences of colonization. It is hard for me to grow up and see my own people suffering the way they do (e.g. homelessness, health problems). I am not about to romanticize ancient Hawaii but I know a defeated people when I see one. Thank God Hawaiians still have their identity, pride, and ability to preserve some remnants of our culture. So here comes a non Hawaiian who moves from the mainland and works actively to strip what little is left of the Hawaiian people. This book adds insult to injury. You see, Conklin believes that the Hawaiians were not on Hawaii long enough to claim they are indigenous people. He feels that they are no more indigenous than he is. When Hawaiians work actively to hang on to what little is left for them he likes to call that racism and apartheid. I know non Hawaiians who have showed respect to the Hawaiian people and actually let us define ourselves. They actually know how to listen. These are people we have loved and welcomed into our own families. This is how my mother and father met. Perhaps Conklin cannot face his own privledge so he defends against these feelings by stating that it is he and other non Hawaiians who are the true victims of discrimination. With that attitude and lack of disrespect he will never be adopted into the Hawaiian ohana and will always feel like an outsider. Too bad.
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This book offers a comparative view of nine historic separatist movements, some of which have achieved the break-up of an empire or a state, and others that to date have not. The authors analyze the long term effects of secession: after partition, ethnic strife typically continues for generations; minorities decline in status; and democracy and human rights are derogated.
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Separatism Among Indian Muslims: The Politics of the United Provinces' Muslims, 18601923 (Cambridge South Asian Studies)
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Book Description
Why some Indian Muslims under British rule should have organised politics on a communal basis is one of the most important problems in the history of the subcontinent. Insistence on a separate Muslim political identity led eventually to the foundation of Pakistan and many of the troubles which have beset the area since Independence. The separate Muslim front in Indian politics was led and supported mainly by men from the United Provinces. The first period of effective separatist politics ended in 1923. This book examines the circumstances in which the separate Muslim front was built up and crumbled away in this period, and then analyses the different groups which at various times supported it. Dr Robinson argues that Muslim separatism was fostered by the political needs of the British, of the Muslims and of the Indian National Congress.
Customer Reviews:
Francis Robinson is good with details.......2001-08-02
I have read may be three books by Francis Robinson and this one again proves that he has a keen eye for details. He has not only beautifully investigated the reasons behind sepratism in indian muslims (which ultimately led to creation of Pakistan) but also given intricate details of internal conflict between mullahs, conservatives and modernists , a conflict that is still alive. Well done Francis Robinson!!!
btw i was thrilled to find some of my relatives mentioned in the book.
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