Lisset M. Pino

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Colonizing History: Rice v. Cayetano and the Fight for Native Hawaiian Self-Determination

This Comment problematizes the historical basis for the Supreme Court’s decision in Rice v. Cayetano. In deeming voting qualifications for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs racially discriminatory, the Rice Court evaded the more complex question whether Native Hawaiians constitute a political community entitled to self-governance.