🌺 Reading Hawai'i 🌺 - hosted by backtobacklist

Read 1 non-fiction book by a Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) or Hawai'i local.
Suggested Reading to Get Started:

  • Hawai'i's Story by Hawai'i's Queen by Queen Liliuokalani
  • From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i by Haunani-Kay Trask
  • Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism by Noenoe K. Silva
  • Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i by Hokulani K. Aikau
  • Autobiography of Protest in Hawai'i by Robert H. Mast
  • Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance by Stephanie Nohelani Teves

Check out Native Books Hawaii, Da Shop HNL, Honolulu Magazine's "50 Essential Hawai'i Books You Should Read in Your Lifetime" list and the #readinghawaii hashtag on Instagram for more inspiration. 

All books added
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism by Noenoe K. Silva

Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism

Noenoe K. Silva

260 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i by Hokulani K. Aikau, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i

Hokulani K. Aikau, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

448 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Lili'uokalani

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

Lili'uokalani

474 pages • first pub 1898 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i by Haunani-Kay Trask

From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i

Haunani-Kay Trask

272 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

Janet Mock

288 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
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