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    Aloha Compadre
    Latinxs in Hawai'i

    Rudy P. Guevarra (Author)

    9780813565668

    Hardback, published 14 July 2023

    338 pages, 14 bw, 11 color, 3 maps, 1 graph 2 tables
    23.5 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm, 0.472 kg

    "Guevarra's Aloha Compadre is a necessary intervention within the conversation of Latinx transnational migration and is relevant for historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and interdisciplinary scholars alike."

    (Ethnic Studies Review)

    "Aloha Compadre feels grounded and approachable in the way it is written and the story it tells about Latinx in Hawai'i."

    (Journal for the Anthropology of North America) "As all superb studies do, this book hints at further research for scholars to investigate. . . . This is an excellent contribution to the study of Hawai'i and of Latinxs and will be of interest to a broad range of scholars." (Pacific Historical Review) "The most extensive qualitative work ever written about Hawai'i's Latino or Latinx population. . . . Guevarra craftily weaves together a multiplicity of themes such as Hawaiian histories, Latinx presences, race and ethnicity, cultural identity, diasporas, labor relations and immigration issues, together with notions of U.S. imperialism, expanding capitalism and settler colonialism, to reveal for the reader the meaning of the Latina/o experience in Hawai'i, past and present. . . . As Boricua Hawaiiana myself, I doubt if this rich and comprehensive work will ever be replicated." - Anthony Castanha (Hawaiian Journal of History)
    "Guevarra situates Hawaiʻi as a centerpiece of the interaction between Asia and Latin America on U.S. soil, from complicating notions of settler colonialism to chronicling the spread of anti-immigrant sentiment in the 'aloha' state to placing cross-racial unions in the broader formation of a 'local' identity. This is a masterpiece in multiracial analysis and writing!"
    - George J. Sánchez (author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1)
    "You simply will not know the full history and context of Hawai'i without reading Aloha Compadre. Rudy Guevarra has gifted us a must-read book on the lives of Hawai'i’s overlooked Latinx communities, who make up over 10% of the population. Through poignant prose and sharp analysis, Guevarra illuminates the movement of Latinx communities across Oceania as they create a Pacific Latinidad."
    - Nitasha Tamar Sharma (author of Hawai'i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific) “Aloha Compadre sets a new standard for the history of the Latinx diaspora in Hawai’i.”
      - Luis Alvarez (author of The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II)

    Awarded honorable mention for the 2024 International Latino Book Awards in The Dolores Huerta Best Cultural & Community Themed Book – English category.

    Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawaiʻi is the first book to examine the collective history and contemporary experiences of the Latinx population of Hawaiʻi. This study reveals that contrary to popular discourse, Latinx migration to Hawaiʻi is not a recent event. In the national memory of the United States, for example, the Latinx population of Hawaiʻi is often portrayed as recent arrivals and not as long-term historical communities with a presence that precedes the formation of statehood itself. Historically speaking, Latinxs have been voyaging to the Hawaiian Islands for over one hundred and ninety years. From the early 1830s to the present, they continue to help shape Hawaiʻi’s history, yet their contributions are often overlooked. Latinxs have been a part of the cultural landscape of Hawaiʻi prior to annexation, territorial status, and statehood in 1959. Aloha Compadre also explores the expanding boundaries of Latinx migration beyond the western hemisphere and into Oceania.

    Preface 
    Note on Terminology and Accessibility 
    Introduction: The Deportation of Andres MagaÑ
    a Ortiz 
    1 Vaqueros and Paniolos 
    2 Boricua Hawaiiana
    3 Working Maui Pine 
    4 “
    Wetbacks”
    in Racial Paradise? 
    5 Mixed Race Identity, Localized Latinxs, and a Pacific Latinidad 
    Epilogue 
    Acknowledgments 
    Notes 
    Selected Bibliography 
    Index
     
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