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Space-time colonialism : Alaska's indigenous and Asian entanglements

ISBN: 9781469656175
ISBN: 1469656175
ISBN: 9781469656182
ISBN: 1469656183
ISBN: 9781469656199
Physical Description: print xvii, 212 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

Summary: "As the enduring "last frontier," Alaska proves an indispensable context for examining the form and function of American colonialism, particularly in the shift from western continental expansion to global empire. In this richly theorized work, Juliana Hu Pegues evaluates four key historical periods in U.S.-Alaskan history: the Alaskan purchase, the Gold Rush, the emergence of salmon canneries, and the World War II era. In each, Hu Pegues recognizes colonial and racial entanglements between Alaska Native peoples and Asian immigrants. In the midst of this complex interplay, the American colonial project advanced by differentially racializing and gendering Indigenous and Asian peoples, constructing Asian immigrants as "out of place" and Alaska Natives as "out of time." Counter to this space-time colonialism, Native and Asian peoples created alternate modes of meaning and belonging through their literature, photography, political organizing, and sociality"--