In this brilliant reinvention of the travel guide, artists, activists, and scholars redirect readers from the fantasy of Hawai'i as a tropical paradise and tourist destination toward a multilayered and holistic engagement with Hawai'i's culture, complex history, and the effects of colonialism.

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines, also published by Duke University Press.

Hokulani K. Aikau is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah and author of A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai‘i.