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Territorial Discontent

CHamorus, Filipinos, and the Making of the United States Empire in Guahan
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This one-hundred-year history of the island of Guahan, also known as Guam, charts how Indigenous CHamorus and Filipino migrants navigated and negotiated the expansion of US imperialism and militarism in the Pacific. Throughout the twentieth century, CHamorus and Filipinos living in Guahan expressed their discontent with the inequities created by the US empire. Instead of partaking in outright anticolonial movements, they advocated for liberal solutions such as individual rights, land ownership, economic opportunities, and US citizenship. Unraveling this entangled history, Kristin Oberiano exposes the limitations of liberalism in anticolonial resistance. Tracing the long history of CHamoru-Filipino relations, from the exile of Filipino revolutionaries to Guahan to the burgeoning CHamoru self-determination movement, Territorial Discontent grapples with the varied motives that propelled CHamorus and Filipinos to rely on the limited liberal promise of freedom. Oberiano reveals that implementing these solutions for one group too often required the continued colonization of the other, entrenching US colonialism in Guahan and enflaming tensions between CHamorus and Filipinos. Examining these antagonisms, Oberiano argues that building relationships with the CHamoru virtue of inafa'maolek-"to make good"-can nurture CHamoru-Filipino solidarities and illuminate alternative possibilities for Guahan's ongoing decolonization movement.
Kristin Oberiano is assistant professor of history at Wesleyan University.
"An eloquent narrative, rich with complexity and historical texture, and a welcome resource for readers in Guahan, Turtle Island, and beyond."-Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi, author of Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine "A lesson in the possibilities of enacting solidarity where structures of colonialism have continually endeavored to make it an impossibility."-Simeon Man, author of Soldiering Through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific
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