29.013 - The Burden of Being the 50th State: The Role of Educational Research in Claiming Justice for the Hawaiian People

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This Presidential Session will highlight the research of Native Hawaiian scholar-activists seeking justice for their people in the aftermath of a conspiracy between U.S. diplomatic and military personnel and a group of anti-monarchical insurgents that resulted in the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893. Their research will document the injurious nature of the relationship that the Hawaiian people have had to endure with the U.S. government since the overthrow. Each presenter will examine the role that research plays in bringing about the conscientization of people and the eventual return of Hawaiʻi to a state of sovereignty. This session will emphasize the moral obligation of researchers to “apply principles and evidence from social science research and theorizing to the problems of injustice.”

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Margaret J. Maaka, University of Hawaii - Manoa

Papers

• Ea Mai Hawaiinuiakea: Educate and Liberate; Rise Hawaiʻi! - S Kaleikoa Kaeo, University of Hawai‘i Maui College

• Ancestral Voices and Contemporary Choices: Carrying the Weight of Hundreds of Generations of Ancestors on our Shoulders - Katrina-Ann R. Kapā‘anaokalāokeola Oliveira, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Forging Educational Gorilla Warfare: Rendering Unto Ceasar and Living to Fight Another Day - Kekailoa Perry, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• The Good, the Bad, and the Illusion of Language Revitalization in Hawaiʻi - K. Laiana Wong, University of Hawaii

Discussant

• Graham H. Smith, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi