Bridging the multiple histories and present-day iterations of U.S. settler colonialism in North America and its overseas imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the essays in this groundbreaking volume underscore the United States as a fluctuating constellation of geopolitical entities marked by overlapping and variable practices of colonization. By rethinking the intertwined experiences of Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, Chamorros, Filipinos, Hawaiians, Samoans, and others subjected to U.S. imperial rule, the contributors consider how the diversity of settler claims, territorial annexations, overseas occupations, and circuits of slavery and labor—along with their attendant forms of jurisprudence, racialization, and militarism—both facilitate and delimit the conditions of colonial dispossession. Drawing on the insights of critical indigenous and ethnic studies, postcolonial theory, critical geography, ethnography, and social history, this volume emphasizes the significance of U.S. colonialisms as a vital analytic framework for understanding how and why the United States is what it is today.
Contributors. Julian Aguon, Joanne Barker, Berenika Byszewski, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Augusto Espiritu, Alyosha Goldstein, J. K?haulani Kauanui, Barbara Krauthamer, Lorena Oropeza, Vicente L. Rafael, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Lanny Thompson, Lisa Uperesa, Manu Vimalassery
- Contents
- Introduction | Toward a Genealogy of the U.S. Colonial Present / Alyosha Goldstein
- Part I. Histories in Contention
- Chapter 1 | The Specters of Recognition / Joanne Barker
- Chapter 2 | Colonizing Chaco Canyon: Mapping Antiquity in the Territorial Southwest / Berenika Byszewski
- Chapter 3 | The Prose of Counter-Sovereignty / Manu Vimalassery
- Chapter 4 | A Sorry State: Apology Politics and Legal Fictions in the Court of the Conqueror / J. Kehaulani Kauanui
- Part II. Colonial Entanglements
- Chapter 5 | Missionaries, Slaves, and Indians: Fragmented Colonial Exchanges in the Early American South / Barbara Krauthamer
- Chapter 6 | American Empire, Hispanism, and the Nationalist Visions of Albizu, Recto, and Grau / Augusto Espiritu
- Chapter 7 | Becoming Indo-Hispano: Reies López Tijerina and the New Mexican Land Grant Movement / Lorena Oropeza
- Chapter 8 | Seeking New Fields of Labor: Football and Colonial Political Economies in American Samoa / Fa'anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa
- Chapter 9 | The Kēpaniwai (Damming of the Water) Heritage Gardens: Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State / Dean Itsuji Saranillio
- Part III. Politics of Transposition
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 11 | Governmentality and Cartographies of Colonial Spaces: The “Progressive Military Map of Porto Rico,” 1908–1914 / Lanny Thompson
- Chapter 12 | “I’m Not Running on My Gender”: The 2010 Navajo Nation Presidential Race, Gender, and the Politics of Tradition / Jennifer Nez Denetdale
- Chapter 13 |Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire / Vicente L. Rafael
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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