Juliet Nebolon’s forthcoming Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawaiʻi and the Making of US Empire (Duke University Press, 2024) is one of the latest books to be indexed by Southwest Humanities, and it is scheduled to be published on November 1. In this original and thorough study, “Nebolon shows how settler colonialism and militarization simultaneously perpetuated, legitimated, and concealed one another in wartime Hawaiʻi for the purposes of empire building in Asia and the Pacific Islands.” Examining the racial biopolitics of the settler colonial project in Hawaiʻi, the book “reveals how settler militarism and racial liberal biopolitics operated together in the service of capitalism” and thereby “created the conditions for the late-twentieth-century expansion of US military empire.” Settler Militarism will be of great interest to scholars and readers of Native and Indigenous studies, American studies, and histories of US imperialism. Please see the publisher’s website here for more information.
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