The Pacific Imperialisms working group focuses on the interconnected racial and gendered geographies of Pacific spaces from Latin America and California to the western US-Canada borderlands and Alaska, and across the sea to the Pacific Rim of East Asia, the Philippines, and Hawai’i and the rest of the South Pacific. We will build a common core understanding of the different ways in which imperial powers have overlapped and succeeded each other in the Pacific, and how spaces that are locationally distant and racially differentiated have actually been co-produced through Pacific interconnections. We will also build a common core understanding of the different ways in which imperial powers have overlapped and succeeded each other in the Pacific, and how spaces that are locationally distant and racially differentiated have actually been co-produced through Pacific interconnections.
