SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kingdom Of Hawaii, Haole, Sharecropping
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Europeans set up advisors and intermarried to the hawaiian royal family. Starting in 1700s, the king regularly offered native women to white men. Hawaiian sugar was imported into the us without any taxation. Hawaiian natives protested and became a part of the us. Half of hawaii"s population works on sugar or pineapple plantations. Extreme concentration of economic and political power. Made 50 times what a worker made. Controlled 5/6 of land for their companies. White and nonwhite became a marker of institutionalized economic and political power. Native population were not good laborers because their population was declining (300,000 40,000) Used asian exclusion laws to deny citizenship. 1910, more than 40% of population and could not vote. Didn"t want japanese to have children on the island so they couldn"t become citizens. Citizenship gains and eliminated former labor stratification by nationality.
