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History 483 - The United States in the Pacific: Research Topics

Military violence in Okinawa

"Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence: A feminist challenge to militarism" by Akibayashi, Kozue
Ed.D dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2002
Ganesan, N., and Sung Chull Kim. “Unsettled State Violence in Japan: The Okinawa Incident.” State Violence in East Asia, The University Press of Kentucky, 2013, pp. 75-.
Akibayashi, Kozue. “Okinawa: Life on the Island of U.S. Military Bases.” Peace and Freedom (1978), vol. 70, no. 2, 2010, pp. 6-.

U.S. military geo-politics

Hawaian and Samoan language preservation

Colonial place-(re)naming in Hawaiʻi)

Mānoa Multilayered Map Signage, Multilingual Multicultural Initiative
A 1882 map of Mānoa is overlaid over the current UHM campus map to show the ʻili ʻāina.
Herman, R. D. K. “The Aloha State: Place Names and the Anti-Conquest of Hawai’i.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 89, no. 1, 1999, pp. 76–102
Oliveira, Katrina-Ann R. Kapā’AnaokalāOkeola NāKoa. “Wahi a Kahiko: Place Names as Vehicles of Ancestral Memory.” AlterNative : An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, vol. 5, no. 2, 2009, pp. 100–115.

Chinese neocolonialism in the Pacific

Hawaiians hybridization of Western culture for survival

Imada, Adria. Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire. Duke University Press, 2012 (ebook)
Ebook and print version, Hawaiian GV1796 .H8 I43 2012
Beamer, Kamanamaikalani. No Mākou Ka Mana : Liberating the Nation. Kamehameha Publishing, 2014. (ebook)
Ebook and print copy, Reserves, Hawaiian Reference & Hawaiian DU627.2 .B43 2014

Gendered colonialisms in Hawaiʻi and Guam

Hattori, Anne Perez. Colonial Dis-Ease : US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898-1941. University of Hawaii Press, 2004, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824851194.
Ebook and print book, Main and Pacific RA558 .G85 H38 2004
Trask, Haunani-Kay., and Haunani-Kay. Trask. From a Native Daughter : Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaiʻi. Rev. ed., University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1999, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824847029.
Ebook and print book, Main and Hawaiian DU627.8 .T73 1999

Filipino colonial education

Hawaiian renaissance and anti-colonial protests

Samoan diaspora and language preservation through social media

Simanu-Klutz, Luafata, and Akiemi Glenn. “Pacific Languages in Diaspora.” Amerasia Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 2017, pp. ix–xxiv.

Cultural effects of U.S. annexation on Hawaiians