also: it'd depend on if the students are interested in learning more about hawaii. i've been pushing them to think critically about the plantation system in hawaii and the impact of tourism on those systems, but it's really outside their context. it's early in the semester, and i haven't yet decided if that'd even be the best entre point into NOT EAST COAST race relations... if i'd designed the syllabus, i'd've gone with a more fiction/autobiography take than popular culture, since that's a hell of a lot easier to integrate.

if i'd been able to do that, i'd have them read *behold the many* by lois ann yamanaka to start talking about race/power in non-east coast contexts.