Doctoral Dissertation: Decolonization Activities on Guam at the Nexus of US Colonialism and "Race"

这个项目将调查美国关岛领土上的种族、民族和国家地位的社会结构。研究人员将分析土著查莫罗人如何在他们目前的斗争中融入、谈判和抵制殖民话语，以确定他们对美国的政治身份。它还将分析“种族”如何在这种政治身份和斗争中发挥作用。代表岛上主要政治立场的三个非殖民化“工作队”将是该项目的重点。研究方法包括参与者观察、结构化访谈、对政治活动家谈话和叙述的语言分析以及社会网络分析。对活动家的书面材料的分析将被用来重建身份是如何在这一背景下谈判和“种族主义”的。这个项目将有助于我们理解后殖民世界中的身份(包括种族)建设和政治激进主义。

Abstract 0001467This project will investigate the social construction of race, ethnicity, and nationhood in the US Territory of Guam. The researcher will analyze how the indigenous Chamorro incorporate, negotiate, and resist colonial discourses in their current struggles to define their political identity vis a vis the United States. It will also analyze how "race" figures within this political identity and struggle. The three decolonization "task forces" that represent major political positions on the island will be the focus of the project. Methods include participant observation, structured interviewing, linguistic analysis of the talk and narrative of political activists, and social network analysis. An analysis of the written material of the activists will be used to reconstruct how identity is negotiated and "racialized" in this context. This project will contribute to our understanding of identity (including race) construction and political activism in the postcolonial world.