We're collaborating with one of our favorite local independent book stores for discounts on the next couple of Greener Reader book picks: Visit Da Shop at dashophnl.com
10% off Gun Island: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh with the code "GR10AUG" (good through Aug 20th)
Are you interested in getting more art and more books into public spaces? AND are you looking for a socially distant way to celebrate my birthday? AND can you imagine a collaboration between the Greener Reader and Hawaii FEAST? Email me at espiritu.justine@gmail.com if you're intrigued.
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If you only have a handful of time before book club, here's some things you can browse before coming:
- Dr. Tiffany Ing, an instructor in the Languages, Linguistics and Literature Department at KCC, gave a presentation on "The Coup of the Hawaiian Kingdom: The Bayonet Constitution of 1887," in 2018. Hawaiian Historical Society sponsored the free event and the lecture can be viewed here (53 minutes). "At two o'clock in the morning of July 6, 1887, the Hawaiian League and the Honolulu Rifles forced King David Kalākaua at gunpoint to sign their new constitution and install their members in the cabinet. Members of these two groups would later overthrow Queen Liliʻuokalani in 1893, but this moment in 1887 marked the beginning of the loss of Native Hawaiian sovereignty. In "The Coup of the Hawaiian Kingdom: The Bayonet Constitution of 1887," Dr. Tiffany Lani Ing will discuss how pro-American businessmen and missionary descendants threatened the king in nineteenth-century English-language newspapers weeks before forcing him to sign their 1887 constitution."
- The Coup of the Hawaiian Kingdom (28 minutes)
- "Hawaiian-language materials as a whole are a time capsule of important historical and cultural writings, and the newspapers are the most dense, most interconnecting portion of the historical cache... Between 1834 and 1948, more than one hundred Hawaiian-language newspapers were published in Hawaii, with an output equal to about one million typed pages... A significant amount of those newspaper articles were intended to increase a sense of Hawaiian nationalism within the lahui, to preserve cultural knowledge on paper, and to resist colonialism" p. 14, p. 177, p. 185
- "That Kalakaua's effectiveness in publicly providing incentives for business would prove to be one of the causes of an ever-increasing desire for the nation's annexation by the United States is one of the grimmest ironies of his reign" p. 25
- "From 1876 to 1887 the government paid $1,026,212 million dollars for the importation of 39,926 Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Norwegian, German and South Sea Island laborers, while the planters paid only $565,547"
- "While most positive studies of Kalakaua focus on the resurgence of the hula, mele, and other Hawaiian traditions, more should be said about his courage, determination, and ingenuity in sustaining the nation's independence in the face of the economic control and the animosity of his opposition". p. 82
- Supporting Kalakaua to support the goal of sustaining the Hawaii Kingdom, mele, editing his own newspaper, exchanging decorations to procure immigrants (p. 147), photo shoots consumerism and ethnographic model of representation and the cigarettes (p. 107), the talents and skills recognized by those he met on his international tour (p. 109 - 110), successful negotiation on behalf of haole plantations gave credible reason for disliking him (p. 111)
- "That Kanaka Maoli so swiftly and so astutely learned the publishing process from early missionaries, then printed their own nationalist papers, underscores Native intellect and initiative. The collection of Hawaiian-language newspapers would become the largest collection of indigenous writing in history"
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What Are We Reading In 2020?
We gathered book suggestions from the most faithful Greener Readers and other bibliophiles we dreamed and schemed with throughout 2019. See what we voted for and when we'll meet to discuss them, and click to view what their other suggestions were if you're looking for recommendations! Also, support local and independent bookstores and make a custom order through Da Shop of any books on the list they don't already have in stock!
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