My point was that, no matter what the official racial designations were, Hawaiians were, and still are, resistant to using those designations. Heritage, and the countries of said heritage, are important to Hawaiians.
May be, but someone of the negroid race would have been called “Negro” not “African”.
BTW I lived in HI for years and I never heard any worry about “black” vs “African” or anything. Most used the word “popolo” anyway. If they were local.