Annexation Geekdom

Today on Amazon.com trying to track down the citation for “In The Name of Hawai’ians”:http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/halualani_in.html I discovered that “Noenoe Silva”:http://www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu/Faculty/silva/nsilva.htm has an “amazon profile”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/clm/ref=cm_aya_ac_addfriend/002-3949094-5952040?form-customer-links=A3V8M4YZ7J4U86&cl.A3V8M4YZ7J4U86=favorite-member&result-template=tg/cm/member-glance/-/A3V8M4YZ7J4U86. It’s somewhat brief (although there is a very decent list on “Hawai’i by Hawai’ians: Beyond Tourist Propoganda”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/PKDX9GDGTVXW/ref=cm_aya_lm_title.more/002-3949094-5952040). What struck me about it was her nickname — Noe1893. I am all for academic geekdom, but somehow this just struck me as a little off. Kind of like me making my amazon nickname ‘rexkristallnacht’ or something more mild but equally reminiscent of politically and ethnic disaster. Maybe it’s meant to remind people they should never forget “what happened in 1893″:http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_041000_hawaiiannexa.htm, and to remember what life was like in the islands in the 1,893 years _before_ the white guys took over? Hard to tell. The very fact that I saw ‘noe1893′ and immediately realized who it was and what 1893 meant clearly indicates I myself am rapidly becoming an Annexation Geek.