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DESCRIPTION:As the United States consolidated its territorial empire in the
  early twentieth century\, students and teachers navigated the daily proce
 ss of negotiating colonization in public school classrooms. Observers laud
 ed Hawai‘i’s schools as examples of America’s successful “melting 
 pot\,” where students of Native Hawaiian\, white American\, Japanese\, K
 orean\, Chinese\, Scottish\, Portuguese\, Puerto Rican\, and many other he
 ritages learned in purported harmony. Progressive educational reforms chal
 lenged teachers to use their knowledge of individual students to advance A
 mericanization and instill behaviors identified with democratic citizenshi
 p. Students and their families viewed education as means to challenge soci
 o-economic hierarchies\, claim access to political rights\, and sustain cu
 ltural identities. Drawing on student essays written as part of the Survey
  on Race Relations in the 1920s as well as school district records\, teach
 ers’ correspondence\, and accounts in professional journals\, this paper
  analyzes how Hawai‘i’s students understood themselves and the possibi
 lities and the limits they faced as they crafted their identities within t
 he American empire. Students cited education and their teachers alternativ
 ely as sources of inspiration and as reinforcers of racial hierarchies\, s
 uggesting how broader transnational structures of race and gender influenc
 ed\, but did not entirely dictate\, the daily interactions of students and
  teachers in classrooms. As they considered options for international trav
 el and study\, compared constraints on their rights in Hawai‘i with the 
 U.S. Mainland and other nations\, and asserted their cultural and civic id
 entities\, these students illustrated the tensions that emerged as global 
 interconnectedness and exclusionary policies shaped their everyday decisio
 ns.
DTSTAMP:20260412T123906Z
LOCATION:Room 302 (Seats 48)
SUMMARY:Negotiating Identity at the Crossroads of American Empire: Students
 ’ Perspectives on Citizenship and Culture in Interwar Hawai‘i (1919-19
 41) - Michelle Morgan
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/NASSHJ/
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