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Space-time colonialism : Alaska's indigenous and Asian entanglements / Juliana Hu Pegues

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press [[2021]], [2021]

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978-1-4696-5620-5 (electronic book); 1-4696-5620-5 (electronic book)

978-1-4696-5617-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-4696-5617-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-4696-5618-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-4696-5618-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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LOC-SH: Alaska Natives -- History ; Asians -- Alaska -- History ; Immigrants -- Alaska -- History ; Alaska -- Colonization ; Electronic books

Immigrants ; Colonization ; Asians ; Alaska Natives ; Alaska ; History

"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"--