Explicit
From the archives: Haunani-Kay Trask on Academic Freedom at UH Mānoa, 1991
Explicit
Without Apologies by Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua and Kahunawai Wright
Episode notes
In 1991, faculty in the University of Hawaiʻi Philosophy department were calling for Professor Haunani-Kay Trask to be fired. They were upset about a scathing op-ed she had written in the University's student newspaper Ka Leo o Hawaiʻi. But, she refused to be silent. Instead, she spoke even more powerfully. It was February 7, 1991 at a forum on the politics of academic freedom and white supremacy. In this speech, Kumu Haunani-Kay recounts a history of the attempted genocide of Kanaka Hawaiʻi, and she connects that history with attempts to expunge Native Hawaiian voices from the campus.