Reimagining the Pacific: Settler Colonialism and the Hawaiian Islands in the Twenty-First Century.

The article discusses the concept of settler colonialism and its application to events in Israel and Palestine, as well as the Hawaiian Islands. It explores the historical processes by which European and U.S. empires brought nonwhite societies under their control during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author focuses on the 1893 haole revolution in Hawaii and the subsequent efforts to secure U.S. annexation, highlighting the ways in which marginalized empires like Portugal and Japan contested the situation. The article also examines the Hawaiian Republic's policies and debates regarding nonwhite citizenship and voting rights, ultimately condemning the nineteenth-century U.S. nation state and the local white residents who participated in overthrowing the Hawaiian monarchy. The author suggests the need for serious solutions to address past wrongs, but also acknowledges the complexity of replacing the nation state with a nonstate entity that values equality under the law for all residents. [Extracted from the article]