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Geoffrey M. White

Biography

Geoffrey M. White

Geoffrey M. White is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i. He is the co-editor of PERILOUS MEMORIES: The Asia-Pacific War(s), also published by Duke University Press, and author of IDENTITY THROUGH HISTORY: Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society.

Geoffrey M. White

Books by Geoffrey M. White

Memorializing Pearl Harbor: Unfinished Histories and the Work of Remembrance
by Geoffrey M. White - History, Nonfiction

Analyzing moments in which history is re-presented --- in commemorative events, documentary films, museum design and educational programming --- Geoffrey M. White shows that the memorial to the Pearl Harbor bombing is not a fixed or singular institution. Rather, it has become a site in which many histories are performed, validated and challenged. In addition to valorizing military service and sacrifice, the memorial has become a place where Japanese veterans have come to seek recognition and reconciliation, where Japanese Americans have sought to correct narratives of racial mistrust, and where Native Hawaiians have challenged their ongoing erasure from their own land.