
Reworking Race
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai''i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. Spearheading the shift, tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and longshore workers eagerly joined the left-led International Longshoremen''s and Warehousemen''s Union (ILWU) and challenged the...
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai''i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. Spearheading the shift, tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and longshore workers eagerly joined the left-led International Longshoremen''s and Warehousemen''s Union (ILWU) and challenged the...