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Remembering Hawaiian, Transforming Shame
Author(s) -
Marshall Wende Elizabeth
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.2006.31.2.185
Subject(s) - shame , grandparent , sovereignty , decolonization , history , gender studies , sociology , ethnology , psychology , political science , social psychology , law , developmental psychology , politics
In Hawaiì, where a burgeoning movement for sovereignty and cultural revitalization occurred in the mid‐1990s, the concept of “decolonization” emphasized remembering and recreating ways of knowing and being that derived from the traditionally Hawaiian. For the generation born during the years when Hawaiì was a territory of the United States, whose parents and grandparents spoke Hawaiian but who were forced to speak English in school, relearning Hawaiian was an act that challenged the shame of being colonized.