Down the "Long Road": CHamoru Women Confronting the Historical and Gendered Landscapes of U.S. Militarism in Guåhan This talk explores a history of Native women laborers under U.S. naval colonial administration of Guåhan. DeLisle draws from her forthcoming book (UNC Press) to follow the divergent paths Native midwives and teachers forged down the navy's early […]
Title: Critical Refugee Studies and Indigenous Studies: A Transpacific Critique Lecture Description: This talk re-conceptualizes the Vietnam War--and the subsequent U.S.-led refugee rescue operation in Guam and in the Philippines--as a transpacific phenomenon that inflicted collateral damage not only on the Vietnamese but also on indigenous and (formerly) colonized subjects in the circuits of U.S. empire. This reconceptualization […]
From Sea to Shining Sea; United States Continental Imperialism Most historians date the beginning of US imperialism to the 1898 US invasions and occupations in the Pacific and Caribbean. In doing so, they characterize the invasions and occupations that led to US claiming sovereignty over its present continental configuration as “expansion” or “manifest destiny.” But, […]
