Institutional Racism: The Case of Hawaii

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This book describes how institutional racism arose in Hawai'i, why it arose, what kept it going, and how it can be dismantled. It describes the history, statistical patterns, ideological disputation, and political underpinnings of institutional racism in a particular state, indeed, one often thought to be relatively free from it. The book specifically focuses on racial problems related to education, employment, health care delivery, and public accommodation. It concludes that White-constructed institutional racist policies, practices, and procedures persisted even after statehood in 1959, when political power shifted to affluent Japanese-Americans, who used the same forms of institutional racism to hold back Whites and poorer non-White ethnic groups. Although affirmative action is often improperly thought to involve quotas and reverse discrimination, the case of Hawai'i shows that institutional racism can be dismantled through affirmative action without lowering standards of education, employment and health care.

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This densely written, statistically packed book is a well-meaning study, written explicitly to advocate improvement for Hawaii's minority groups. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty; professional.-Choice
"This densely written, statistically packed book is a well-meaning study, written explicitly to advocate improvement for Hawaii's minority groups. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty; professional."-Choice

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MICHAEL HAAS, Codirector of the Center for Research on Ethnic Relations at the Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, has held visiting appointments throughout the world, most recently at the University of London. The author of The Asian Way to Peace and Polity and Society (both Praeger, 1989 and 1992), Dr. Haas has authored or edited more than a dozen other books and written over a hundred articles for such journals as the American Political Science Review and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. He contributes to such periodicals as the Far Eastern Economic Review and The Nation (Bangkok).