It Runs in the 'Ohana: Examining Internalized Oppression and Resistance Among Native Hawaiian Families (Poster 30)

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Abstract

In light of recent reports of anti-Blackness, misogyny, and xenophobia in Native Hawaiian communities, this study critically examines internalized oppression and resistance. A Critical Race Wahine ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian women) Epistemological lens is applied to contextualize these phenomena as huikau (confusion) and kūʻē (resistance), respectively, and to conceptualize the extent to which they “run” in families with Hawaiian culture-based schooling backgrounds. Using a qualitative research design grounded in Native Hawaiian ways of knowing and being, this study interweaves stories, artifacts, and genealogies from interviews and participant-observations of two multigenerational families to understand how huikau and kūʻē are transmitted within and across generations and how these lessons of the home are affirmed or challenged in classrooms.

Author

• Kourtney Kawano, University of California - Berkeley