Sudden Rush: Na Mele Paleoleo (Hawaiian Rap) as Liberatory Discourse
@article{Akindes2001SuddenRN, title={Sudden Rush: Na Mele Paleoleo (Hawaiian Rap) as Liberatory Discourse}, author={Fay Yokomizo Akindes}, journal={Discourse}, year={2001}, volume={23}, pages={82 - 98} }
Silencing the Native Hawaiian language was one of the loudest violations of human rights by U.S. American colonizers in Hawai’i. Within a period of a hundred years, Hawai’i was transformed from a place where nearly every Hawaiian person spoke Hawaiian to one where less than a thousand people spoke their mother tongue (Kimura 74). The American colonizers understood the centrality and power of language for a people and imposed English as the official language for business and education in Hawai’i…
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