What We Are Reading Today: Red Dirt: class and the contestations of indigeneity in Hawai’i and beyond

Author: Ikaika Ramones Indigenous studies struggles to analyze class, yet class reshapes the cultural, political, and economic terrain of indigeneity. In “Red Dirt,” Ikaika Ramones goes beyond the usual conceptual frameworks of resistance and domination to explore the political-economic basis for Native Hawaiian social reproduction and revitalization. By doing so, he casts indigeneity as a contested process rather than reification…