“This enclosed, segmented space, observed at every point, in…

“This enclosed, segmented space, observed at every point, in which the individuals are inserted in a fixed place, in which the slightest movements are supervised, in which all events are recorded, in which an uninterrupted work of writing links the centre and periphery, in which power is exercised without division, according to a continuous hierarchical figure, in which each individual is constantly located, examined and distributed among the living beings, the sick and the dead—all this constitutes a compact model of the disciplinary mechanism.” The speaker is ___.

“Because of colonization, the question of who defines what i…

“Because of colonization, the question of who defines what is Native, and even who is defined as Native has been taken away from Native peoples by Western-trained scholars, government officials, and other technicians. This theft in itself testifies to the pervasive power of colonialism and explains why self-identity by Natives of who and what they are elicits such strenuous and sometimes vicious denials by the dominant culture.” The speaker is ___.

“If one ‘is’ a woman, that is surely not all one is; the ter…

“If one ‘is’ a woman, that is surely not all one is; the term fails to be exhaustive, not because of a pregendered ‘person’ transcends the specific paraphernalia of its gender, but because gender is not always constituted coherently or consistently in different historical contexts, and because gender intersects with racial, class, ethnic, sexual, and regional modalities of discursively constituted identities. As a result, it becomes impossible to separate out ‘gender’ from the political and cultural intersections in which it is invariably produced and maintained.” The speaker is ___.

“Today, Hawai’i suffers six and a half million tourists annu…

“Today, Hawai’i suffers six and a half million tourists annually, over thirty visitors for every Native Hawaiian” (Trask 50). In the previous sentence, Trask uses the phrase “Hawai’i suffers” and says that the idea of “happy Hawaiians” is mythical. Identify FOUR reasons why she says this is so.