Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (born July 17, 1968) is an American author, radio producer and professor.
[3] Her research areas focus on indigeneity and race, settler colonialism, decolonization, anarchism, and gender and sexuality.
She is the author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Duke University Press 2008) and Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism (Duke University Press 2018).
[12] Kauanui also sits on the following editorial/advisory boards: American Indian Quarterly; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; Hulili: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being; and Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific.
With Jean M. O’Brien, Kauanui also co-edits a book series, “Critical Indigeneities”, for the University of North Carolina Press.