Geoffrey M. White is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i. He is the coeditor of Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s), also published by Duke University Press, and author of Identity through History: Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society.

Acknowledgments  vii

Introduction. Memorializing History  1

1. Survivor Voices  35

2. Cultures of Commemoration  77

3. Memorial Film: Envisioning Race and Nation  129

4. Theming America at War  161

5. Making a New Museum  201

6. Pedagogy, Patriotism, and Paranoia  245

Conclusion. History's Future  265

Appendix 1. Pearl Harbor Bombing Statistics (December 7, 1941)  285

Appendix 2. Chronology of Hawaiian Political History, Postcontact  287

Appendix 3. Chronology of Internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese Residents  289

Appendix 4. Very Brief Filmography of Pearl Harbor Official and Feature Films  291

Notes  293

References  307

Index  319