In this episode of The Control Zone, hosts Jessica Buxbaum and Kellie Kuenzle end their conversation on the US occupation of Hawai'i by speaking with Dr. Laurel Mei-Singh, an assistant professor of Geography and Asian American Studies at the University of Texas in Austin, on how the US government turned the islands into a military outpost.

Highlighting the case of Mākua Valley on Oahu, we look at how US militarization of Hawai'i has contributed to the desecration of indigenous land and environmental destruction, and the ways in which Hawaiians are resisting.

This is the final episode in our three-part series on the US occupation of Hawai'i.

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In this episode of The Control Zone, hosts Jessica Buxbaum and Kellie Kuenzle continue their conversation on the US occupation of Hawai'i, speaking with Dr. Uahikea Maile, an assistant professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago, on Hawaiʻi’s transition from a US territory to a state in 1959.

We explore the aftermath of US control—what happened to indigenous lands, Native Hawaiian resistance to US occupation, and how these issues still shape sovereignty struggles today.

This is the second episode in our three-part series on the US occupation of Hawai'i.

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In this episode of The Control Zone, hosts Jessica Buxbaum and Kellie Kuenzle speak with Dean Saranillio, author of Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawaiʻi Statehood, about Hawaiʻi’s transformation from a sovereign kingdom into a US territory and, eventually, a state in 1959.

This discussion examine how race, economic interests, US expansionism, and Cold War anticommunism shaped the debate over Hawaiʻi’s incorporation into the United States—and how Native Hawaiian opposition was marginalized or excluded from that process.

This is the first episode in our three-part series on the US occupation of Hawai'i.

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