Product Description

Haunani-Kay Trask is a Professor of Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i. A Native Hawaiian nationalist, she is a co-founder and activist with Ka Lahui Hawai'i, the major organization advocating Hawaiian sovereignty. Her ongoing struggle for decolonization, human rights, and self-determination for her people as well as indigenous peoples all over the world has spanned over thirty years. Dr. Trask has helped to bring international attention to the historical facts of the oppression and genocide of Native Hawaiians in Hawai'i through her teaching, activism, writing, and poetry. Her most well-known book, From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i, is widely considered a masterpiece of contemporary resistance writing.

On this e-archive volume, Haunani-Kay Trask shares some of her perspectives on the possibilities and failings of education in the context of colonialism - past, present, and future. All marginX.com CD-ROMs are designed to be equally useful as tools for learning and also for teaching. This volume includes:

· over two hours of video footage, including an in-depth and fully annotated video interview with Haunani-Kay Trask, as well as supplementary interviews with former students.
· a useful 'play through' function, ideal for showing video sequences in classrooms and other discussion settings.
· photographic images (including illustrated examples and archival photographs).
· selections of her writings & speeches, and excerpts from her book From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i.
· a helpful glossary of terms and definitions.
· examples of course syllabi.
· examples of fliers, fact sheets, and other examples of materials that Haunani-Kay Trask successfully uses as both teaching tools and political weapons.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2733493 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-01
• Format: Unknown format
• Original language: English
• Binding: CD-ROM

Review
"[marginX -] a project that aims to create electronic archives representing the careers of intellectuals known for political activism." -- The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 18, 2002

"the most fascinating, and extreme, two hours of virtual education out there...poignant, articulate, resolute and completely fearless" -- Honolulu Weekly, May 22-28, 2002

Customer Reviews

A valuable cd-rom about education and struggle
This CD-Rom which has literally taken me days to go through - there is just so much information on this disk! The focus of the CD is mainly on education and Haunani-Kay Trask's practice of education, how it helps the Hawaiian people's struggles for sovereignty. The interface of the cd is clean and navigation easy basically just point and click. The videos were great very clear and the audio clean - much better quality than videos on my encyclopedia cd-roms, and the thing I love best is how you can listen to a whole segment and go back to certain parts within that segment without having to listen to the whole thing all over again. Sometimes Haunani Kay Trask will say a word that I never heard of so the definitions that appeared next to the video were extremely helpful. I think being able to listen and watch Haunani Trask talk makes her ideas a little bit easier for me to understand since I'm not the best reader. The two things I would have liked to see more of on this CD would have been more pictures of Haunani Trask and videos of residents of Hawaii, but overall I really liked it and recommend it to people interested in Haunani, her work, or just education in general.

From a Native Daughter: The best on the subject
Wonderful, intelligent, humorous--at times-- and absolutely top drawwer. A must read for anyone interested in indigenous politics, peoples, lands, or issues, and Hawai'i

From a Native Daughter: The best on the subject
Wonderful, intelligent, humorous--at times-- and absolutely top drawer. A must read for anyone interested in indigenous politics, peoples, lands, or issues, and Hawai'i