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Voices of Social Justice and Diversity in a Hawai'i Context - Grandparents, Grandchildren, Schools, Communities, and Churches (Paperback)
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Voices of Social Justice and Diversity in a Hawai'i Context - Grandparents, Grandchildren, Schools, Communities, and Churches (Paperback)
Series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, 130
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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.
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