Waikiki Dreams
How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture
$52.41
- Paperback
316 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2024
Summary
Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized.
Patrick Moser uses surfing to open a door on the cultural appropriation practiced by Depression-era Californians against a backdrop of settler colonialism and white nationalism. Recreating the ima…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252088018 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0252088018 |
| Author: | Patrick Moser |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 316 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Sport and Society |
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Critics Review
“Moser challenges conventional surf historiography in ways that are desperately needed. Mainstream surf narratives frequently point out the influence of Native Hawaiian culture on California surf culture, but typically without critical analysis. Moser upends these narratives by bringing in Indigenous scholarly perspectives to explain the dynamics of cultural appropriation in a refreshingly updated approach.”–Dina Gilio-Whitaker, author of As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock
Patrick Moser
Patrick Moser is professor of writing and French at Drury University. He is the author of Surf and Rescue: George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture and the editor of Pacific Passages: An Anthology of Surf Writing.
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