Maile Arvin is Assistant Professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Utah.

Acknowledgments  Ix Introduction: Polynesia Is a Project, Not a Place  1 Part I. The Polynesian Problem: Scientific Production of the "Almost White" Polynesian Race  35 1. Heirlooms of the Aryan Race: Nineteenth-Century Studies of Polynesian Origins  43 2. Conditionally Caucasian: Polynesian Racial Classification in Early Twentieth-Century Eugenics and Physical Anthropology  67 3. hating Hawaiians, Celebrating Hybrid Hawaiian Girls: Sociology and the Fictions of Racial Mixture  96 Part II. Regenerative Refusals: Confronting Contemporary Legacies of the Polynesian Problem in Hawai'i and Oceania  125 4. Still in the Blood: Blood Quantum and Self-Determination in Day v. Apoliona and Federal Recognition  135 5. The Value of Polynesian DNA: Genomic Solutions to the Polynesian Problems  168 6. Regenerating Indigeneity: Challenging Possessive Whiteness in Contemporary Pacific Art  195 Conclusion. Regenerating an Oceanic Future in Indigenous Space-Time  224 Notes  241 Bibliography  279 Index