The Yale Law Journal

Lisset M. Pino

Comment

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

Lisset M. Pino

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…