Full Description
This book presents nuanced small-scale studies and reflective essays, and is about voices of contemporary grandparents and grandchildren living in the State of Hawai'i which is rapidly going through economic, social, educational, and cultural transformation ushered in by forces of globalization and McDonaldization of society.
Hawai'i is generally known as a great tourist destination that is no less than an imagined paradise. Hawai'i is more than solely a site for tourism; it has a culturally and socially diverse population, and has a contested social history. In this context, in a deeper sense, the book gives the reader glimpses of family members at the level of intimacy among themselves in their place based situated interactions in today's Hawai'i. In its real essence, this book is an authentic collection of research papers, short stories, anecdotes, memories and reminiscences; of aloha (love, compassion, kindness) and mahalo (thanks, respect, and praise); of longing and search for legacy by diasporic elders, immigrants, settlers, American citizens, hyphenated Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders; by grandparents and grandchildren of diverse and multiple ethnicities, cultures, and races who have struggled hard through many decades to make Hawai'i their permanent and beloved home and place, or long-term residence to live and raise their families.
The set of self-narratives in this book may have significant implications for understanding the process of aging in the State of Hawai'i; for social aging is both an individual and a social process in the sense that an individual's biography is intimately related to her/his society's biography. For "doing" roles such as being grandparents and grandchildren are heavily defined and structured by prevailing social and cultural processes.
The book may be useful for educators and students who are working and studying in areas such as education, sociology of family, social work, local and global social change, indigenous cultures and societies, alternative modernities and indigenizing social movements, race and ethnic relations, settler societies, social justice, health care, social gerontology, diaspora and immigration studies, and those working with youth in communities.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
About the Contributors and Authors
Notes on the Editors
Permissions for Reprinted Chapters
Introduction: Wanting to Be Part of Something
Amarjit Singh
Part 1: Brief Historical and Social Contexts
1. Against Extinction: A Legacy of Native Hawaiian Resistance Literature
D. Mahealani Dudoit
2. Hawai'i: Strategic Considerations for Social Struggles
Ibrahim G. Aoudé
3. The Significance of Local
Eric K. Yamamoto
4. A Short History of Workers' Struggles in Hawai'i
John witeck
5. Teaching Amid U.S. Occupation: Sovereignty, Survival, and Social Studies in a Native Hawaiian Charter School
Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua, Willy Kauai, Kaleilehua Maioho and 'Imaikalani Winchester
Part 2: Pacific Islands, Pacific Islanders at Home and in Diaspora in the State of Hawai'i and Mainland U.S.
6. Pacific Islands: A Brief Geo-Political, Social, and Cultural Context
M. Luafata Simanu-Klutz
7. Tongan grandparents and grandchildren: The Impact of Grandparenting
Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi
8. Continuities and Changes in Marshallese Grandparenting
Laurence Marshall Carucci
9. Samoan Grandmothers in Hawai.i: Weaving Grandchildren into the Family Fabric
Susan J. Wurtzburg
10. Pacific Islanders: "Grand" Voices from Hawai.i
M. Luafata Simanu-Klutz
Part 3: Voices of Multicultural, "Local," and Diverse Grandparents in Hawai.i
11. MALama Pono: A Sansei Reflects on Sovereignty
Naomi Sodani
12. The Story of Mrs. Nakajiki and Her Family in Ibaraki
Branden Clark
13. Foreign Grandparents and Parenting in Society Today
Allen John A. Namoca
14. Sociology of Aging: An Outlook on Aging and the Filipino American Perspective
Chantelle Esteban
15. Grandparenting in Hawai.i: A Second Generation Japanese Perspective
Narumi Utashiro
16. Grandparenting across Diverse Cultures
Elibel Berrios
17. A Part-Hawaiian Family Living in the Modern World: Parenting Styles and Passing on Beliefs and Values to the Next Generation
Alexis Panoncillo
18. Filipino Grandparents in Hawai.i
Natalie Muzzini
19. The Role of Our Grandparents in Hawai.i During a Time of Globalization
Leilani Mitchell
20. The Land of the Free: A Grandparent's Story of Adjusting to the USA
Allison Runes
21. Grandparenting in Diverse Cultures
Ashley Kuang
22. Voices of Samoan Grandparents and Grandchildren living in Hawai.i and Samoa
Penitito Faalologo
23. From Being a Grandchild in Palestine to Being a Son, Husband and Father in a Bicultural/Multicultural Family: Doing Grandparenting in a Diverse Ethnic and Racial Hawai.i in the Unted States
Greg Trifonovitch
24. The Changing Tutu: Grandparenting in Hawai.i Influenced by Globalization
Hannah Taua
25. A Fascinating Multicultural Learning Experience: The Grandparenting of Skye, Jett, and Amanda
John Witeck (with input from Lucy Witeck)
Part 4: Remembering Legacies Passed on by Their Grandparents: Voices of Young Contemporary Grandchildren in Hawai.i
26. My Grandparents
Tiffany Blanco
27. Legacy of Grandparents
Brian Yi
28. Social Legacy: What I Have Learned from My Parents and Their Parents
Chiedozie Orji
29. The Imprint of My Grandmother's Social Legacy
Cheyenna McCartin
30. Grandparents' Social Legacy
Vaimoana Atonio
31. Tuamasaga Tonise Sala
Sina Auomanu
32. What My Grandparents Have Taught Me
Sheree Kanekoa
33. My Grandparents' Legacy
Charleen McDuffie
34. Family Is Forever
Sotaro Fujii
35. Our Grandparents Then
Susana Bermudez
36. Forwards, Backwards, Reflections
Geno Poloni
37. My Daddy
Mereane E. Carlise
38. Reflections
Karleen Meyer
39. Grandparent Reflection Essay
Caryn Lesuma
40. The End from the Beginning: Discovering the Grandparents I Never Knew
Christine Mahelona
41. Na Ola O Ko'U Mau Kupuna (The Lives of My Ancestors)
Ka'iuonalani Lewis
42. The Values of My Grandmother Sui
Thomas Sho Khorana
43. Ka Wa Ma Hope
Ramsey Aviu
44. A Diverse People United by Shared Hopes and Values
Kulamau'ukomohana (Kula) Francis Companion
45. An Autobiographical Narrative: Legacies of My Biological Grandparents and My "Hanai" Chinese Grandmother in Hawai'i
Jessica Henao
Part 5: Short Reflections by Grandchildren
46. Iris Qasevakatini (Fijian)
47. Tania Vaea (Tongan)
48. Renise La'a (Tongan)
49. Rusty Hue Sing (Local Hawaiian)
50. Helen Fale (Tongan)
51. Thomas Herrera (Samoan)
52. Victoria Flick (local Caucasian)
53. Elizabeth Vaea (Tongan)
54. Kana'ai Keanani—White (Native Hawaiian)
55. Branson Monaco (Filipino)
56. Sierra Yamaguchi (Samoan)
57. Robert Godinet (Samoan)
58. Kenneth Neo (Korean)
59. Marietta Lafaeli (Samoan)
60. Briana Ribillia-Ramones (Filipino)
61. Angela Gabriel (Native Hawaiian)
Part 6: Future Grandparents
62. My Tutu Wahine O Hawai.i: Planning Grandparenting for the Future
Kuulei Arizo
63. Planning to Be a Grandparent
Anthony-John Tolentino
64. There Are More Things in Life than Being Stressed about Work
Brooks Cottong
65. I Will Stress the Importance of Education to My Kids
Chad McLay
66. Future Grandparent
Juvie Varela
67. We Need to Teach the Next Generation How the Society Is Now and How Society Was Before; We Must Make Them Know That They Don't Have to Live Hype Society
Kawaiaalaopiilani Mahoe
68. My Future: How the Hawaiian Islands Shaped My Legacy
Rachel Valencia
69. Being Near or Around Is the Best Thing for the Soul
Ruben Fierro
70. I Want My Grandchildren to Know Where They Came from
Ariana Homayun
Part 7: Reflective Questions
71. Reflective Questions
Mike Devine
