Goldstein Formations of United States Colonialism

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7596-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

The contributors to this groundbreaking collection of essays explore U.S. overseas empire and settler colonialism within the same analytic framework, revealing the mutually constitutive histories of U.S. colonialism abroad and at home.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldstein, Alyosha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Toward a Genealogy of the U.S. Colonial Present / Alyosha Goldstein 1
Part I. Histories in Contention
1. The Specters of Recognition / Joanne Barker 33
2. Colonizing Chaco Canyon: Mapping Antiquity in the Territorial Southwest / Berenika Byszewski 57
3. The Prose of Counter-Sovereignty / Manu Vimalassery 87
4. A Sorry State: Apology Politics and Legal Fictions in the Court of the Conqueror / J. Kehaulani Kauanui 110
Part II. Colonial Entanglements
5. Missionaries, Slaves, and Indians: Fragmented Colonial Exchanges in the Early American South / Barbara Krauthamer 137
6. American Empire, Hispanism, and the Nationalist Visions of Albizu, Recto, and Grau / Augusto Espiritu 157
7. Becoming Indo-Hispano: Reies López Tijerina and the New Mexican Land Grant Movement / Lorena Oropeza 180
8. Seeking New Fields of Labor: Football and Colonial Political Economies in American Samoa / Fa'anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa 207
9. The Kepaniwai (Damming of the Water) Heritage Gardens: Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State / Dean Itsuji Saranillio 233
Part III. Politics of Transposition
10. Our Stories Are Maps Larger Than Can Be Held: Self-Determination and the Normative Force of Law at the Periphery of American Expansionism / Julian Aguon 265
11. Governmentality and Cartographies of Colonial Spaces: The "Progressive Military Map of Porto Rico," 1908–1914 / Lanny Thompson 289
12. "I'm Not Running on My Gender": The 2010 Navajo Nation Presidential Race, Gender, and the Politics of Tradition / Jennifer Nez Denetdale 316
13. Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire / Vicente L. Rafael 335
Bibliography 361
Contributors 399
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alyosha Goldstein is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century, also published by Duke University Press.