Joy Schulz, "Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U. S. Colonialism in the Pacific" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)

New Books in American Studies · Jun 11, 2021 · 55m

Twelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American missionary families in the islands had birthed more than 250 white children, considered Hawaiian subjects by the indigenous monarchy and U.S. citizens by missionary parents. In Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U. S. Colonialism in the Pacific (University of Nebraska Press, 2020) Joy Schulz explores the tensions among the competing parental, cultural, and educational…