...This chapter examines the popularity of American minstrelsy in Hawaii during the nineteenth century. It looks at professional touring minstrel troupes from the mainland, amateur troupes consisting of the crews of various visiting ships, and local indigenous troupes of Hawaiian minstrels...

...This chapter addresses Hawaiians' roles in the multicultural environment aboard European and American sailing ships during the nineteenth century, focusing particularly on the expressive culture of American whalers. Whaling ships began regularly calling at Hawaiian ports in 1820, and over the next...

...This chapter deals with the antagonistic relationship between American missionaries and American sailors, in which Hawaiians were caught in the middle. It shows how that conflict literally played out on theatrical and musical stages in Hawaii and on the mainland. It frames this struggle using...

...This chapter illustrates how the relationship between sailors and Hawaiians helped to foster the new sound of Native Hawaiian culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hawaii's last king, David Kalākaua, was influenced by sailors' songs and minstrelsy, and his maritime...

... the racial hierarchy by organizing plantation strikes. It concludes that the racial setting was demarcated by an uneven racial divide between Haoles and non-Haoles because Native Hawaiians had much greater political access than most of the latter. anti Japanese movement Big Five companies Haoles Whites...

... and social events. Although their enthusiasm for Hawai`i connected them to the great wave of music, dance, and South Seas films inundating southern California, the broader political reality of the ongoing colonization of Hawai`i placed California surfers and Native Hawaiians at odds. Californians displayed...