A chosen people, a promised land
Subtitle: Mormonism and race in Hawai'i
By: Hokulani K. Aikau
Series: First peoples, new directions in indigenous studies; First peoples (2010)
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780816674619; 9780816674626
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Mormon Church; Mormons; Race relations; Relations with Mormons; Polynesians; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Polynesian Cultural Center (Laie, Hawaii)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : negotiating faithfulness; title: Mormonism, race, and lineage : the making of a chosen people; title: La'ie, a promised land, and Pu'uhonua : spatial struggles for land and identity; title: Called to serve : labor missionary work and modernity; title: In the service of the Lord : religion, race, and the Polynesian Cultural Center; title: Voyages of faith : contemporary Kanaka Maoli struggles for sustainable self-determination; title: Conclusion : Holo Mua, moving forward.