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Waikiki Dreams - Patrick Moser

Waikiki Dreams

How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
316 Seiten
2024
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08801-8 (ISBN)
CHF 38,35 inkl. MwSt
Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized.

Patrick Moser uses surfing to open a door on the cultural appropriation practiced by Depression-era Californians against a backdrop of settler colonialism and white nationalism. Recreating the imagined leisure and romance of life in Waikīkī attracted people buffeted by economic crisis and dislocation. California-manufactured objects like surfboards became a physical manifestation of a dream that, for all its charms, emerged from a white impulse to both remove and replace Indigenous peoples. Moser traces the rise of beach culture through the lives of trendsetters Tom Blake, John “Doc” Ball, Preston “Pete” Peterson, Mary Ann Hawkins, and Lorrin “Whitey” Harrison while also delving into California’s control over images of Native Hawaiians via movies, tourism, and the surfboard industry.

Compelling and innovative, Waikīkī Dreams opens up the origins of a defining California subculture.

Patrick Moser is professor of writing and French at Drury University. He is the author of Surf and Rescue: George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture and the editor of Pacific Passages: An Anthology of Surf Writing.

Acknowledgements

A Note on Hawaiian Language

Introduction

Prologue: California Beach Culture in the 1920s--The Decade of Duke

Part I. The Builders



The Dreamer
The Photographer
The Waterman
The Waterwoman
The Traveler

Part II. The Beaches

Palos Verdes
San Onofre
Malibu

Part III. The Dream

Hawaiian Surfboard and the Writing of Surf History

Epilogue: California Beach Culture during World War II Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Sport and Society
Zusatzinfo 68 black & white photographs
Verlagsort Baltimore
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 540 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-252-08801-8 / 0252088018
ISBN-13 978-0-252-08801-8 / 9780252088018
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