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Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture

By (author) Patrick Moser

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Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized. Patrick Moser uses surfing to open a door on the cultural appropriation practiced by Depression-era Californians against a backdrop of settler colonialism and white nationalism. Recreating the imagined leisure and romance of life in WaikÄ«kÄ«Â attracted people buffeted by economic crisis and dislocation. California-manufactured objects like surfboards became a physical manifestation of a dream that, for all its charms, emerged from a white impulse to both remove and replace Indigenous peoples. Moser traces the rise of beach culture through the lives of trendsetters Tom Blake, John â€œDocâ€ Ball, Preston â€œPeteâ€ Peterson, Mary Ann Hawkins, and Lorrin â€œWhiteyâ€ Harrison while also delving into Californiaâ€™s control over images of Native Hawaiians via movies, tourism, and the surfboard industry. Compelling and innovative, WaikÄ«kÄ«Â Dreams opens up the origins of a defining California subculture.

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