Waves of resistance
Subtitle: surfing and history in twentieth-century Hawaiʻi
By: Isaiah Helekunihi Walker
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780824834623; 9780824835477
Subjects: Hawaiians; Politics and government; Ethnic identity; Surfing; Surfers
Description: "The po‘ina nalu is a significant space where Hawaiian men exercised their cultural, territorial, social, and political prerogatives. The story of their resistance to the inundation of Hawai‘i by European, American, and other invasions is one that has long awaited a good telling... Surfing has been a significant sport and cultural practice in Hawai‘i for more than 1,500 years. In the last century, facing increased marginalization on land, many Native Hawaiians have found refuge, autonomy, and identity in the waves. In Waves of Resistance Isaiah Walker argues that throughout the twentieth century Hawaiian surfers have successfully resisted colonial encroachment in the po‘ina nalu (surf zone). The struggle against foreign domination of the waves goes back to the early 1900s, shortly after the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom, when proponents of this political seizure helped establish the Outrigger Canoe Club—a haoles (whites)-only surfing organization in Waikiki..."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Heʻe nalu : a Hawaiian history of surfing; title: Colonial violence and Hawaiian resistance; title: Hui Nalu, Outrigger, and Waikīkī beachboys; title: Unmanning Hawaiians : producing "ideal natives" via tourism, Hollywood, and historical writings; title: The Hawaiian renaissance and Hawaiian surfers; title: The Hui o Heʻe Nalu; title: Hui in American media : "terrorists" on the North Shore.