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What Does “Hawaiian” Mean? Dr. Keanu Sai on Education, Identity and the History We Inherit
BrotherLee Time Episode #90 | Guest: Dr. Keanu Sai | Format: Explanatory Feature What does it mean to be Hawaiian? Depending on who you ask, the answer might begin with ancestry. Blood quantum. Culture. Where somebody was born. Where they were raised. The family they come from. For Dr. Keanu Sai, one of the central arguments in his conversation with BrotherLee Time is that even the language we use to answer that question has changed. And according to Sai, understanding that c
Sep 195 min read


Dr. Keanu Sai Genealogy: The Promise to His Tutu That Changed His Life
BrotherLee Time Episode 90 | Guest: Dr. Keanu Sai | Format: Narrative Feature Sometimes the thing that changes your life does not feel important when it happens. Sometimes it is just a conversation with your tutu. For Dr. Keanu Sai, one of the defining moments of his life happened before the scholarship, the political science, the research, the court cases and the public conversations that would eventually make his name known across Hawaiʻi. His tutu was dying. Sai was still
Sep 185 min read
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