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Tip of the Spear
In Tip of the Spear
, Alfred Peredo Flores argues that the US occupation of the
island of Guåhan (Guam), one of the most heavily militarized
islands in the western Pacific Ocean, was enabled by a process of
settler militarism. During World War II and the Cold War,
Guåhan was a launching site for both covert and open US military
operations in the region, a strategically significant role that
turned Guåhan into a crucible of US overseas empire. In 1962, the
US Navy lost the authority to regulate all travel to and from the
island, and a tourist economy eventually emerged that changed the
relationship between the Indigenous CHamoru population and the US
military, further complicating the process of settler colonialism
on the island.
The US military occupation of Guåhan was based on a
co-constitutive process that included CHamoru land dispossession,
discursive justifications for the remaking of the island, the
racialization of civilian military labor, and the military's
policing of interracial intimacies. Within a narrative that
emphasizes CHamoru resilience, resistance, and survival, Flores
uses a working class labor analysis to examine how the
militarization of Guåhan was enacted by a minority settler
population to contribute to the US government's hegemonic presence
in Oceania.
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Guam hit by strongest typhoon in decades
Typhoon Mawar struck Guam with damaging winds and flash flooding on May 24.
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Rain, winds slam Guam as Typhoon Mawar approaches
A flash flood warning was issued for all of Guam on May 24, as Typhoon Mawar neared the island.
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From unincorporated territory åmot
\"This book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez's ongoing from unincorporated territory series about the history of his homeland, the western Pacific island of Guåhan (Guam), and the culture of his indigenous Chamoru people. \"Åmot\" is the Chamoru word for \"medicine,\" and commonly refers to medicinal plants. Traditional healers were known as yo'åmte, and they gathered åmot in the jungle, and recited chants and invocations of taotao'mona, or ancestral spirits, in the healing process. Through experimental and visual poetry, Perez explores how storytelling can become a symbolic form of åmot, offering healing from the traumas of colonialism, militarism, migration, environmental injustice, and the death of elders\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Forgotten Bodies
Women from Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, who migrate to Guam, a U.S. territory, suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcomes. Though their access to the United States is unusually easy, through a unique migration agreement, it keeps them in a perpetual liminal state as nonimmigrants, who never fully belong as part of the United States Chuukese women move to Guam, sometimes with their families but sometimes alone, in search of a better life: for jobs, for the education system, or to access safe health care. Yet, the imperial system they encounter creates underlying conditions that greatly and disproportionately impact their ability to succeed and thrive, negatively impacting their reproductive health. Through clinical and community ethnography, Sarah A. Smith illuminates the way this system stratifies women's reproduction at structural, social, and individual levels. Readers can visualize how U.S. imperialist policies of benign neglect control the body politic, change the social body, and render individual bodies vulnerable in the twenty-first century but also how people resist.
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Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Incidence among Asian and Pacific Islander Populations in Guam, Hawai’i, and the United States
Colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks among the three most common cancers in Guam (GU), Hawai’i (HI), and the mainland United States (US). CRC prevalence in these areas is high among Filipinos, and indigenous CHamorus and Native Hawaiians; however, data on these populations are frequently aggregated in epidemiological studies, which can mask true CRC disparities. We examined CRC cumulative incidence rates (CIRs) among CHamorus in GU, Filipinos in GU, HI, and the US, and Native Hawaiians in HI and the US. CRC CIRs were calculated for two age groups (20–49 years; early onset, and 50–79 years; senior) and four time periods (2000–2004, 2005–2009, 2010–2014, and 2015–2019), stratified by ethnicity, sex, and location. Data analyzed included all invasive CRC cases reported to the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results 9-Registry (n = 166,666), the Hawai’i Tumor Registry (n = 10,760), and the Guam Cancer Registry (n = 698) between 2000 and 2019. Senior CIRs were highest in HI and lowest in GU throughout all time periods, with a downward trend observed for senior CIRs in the US and HI, but not GU. This downward trend held true for all ethnic groups, except for CHamorus in GU, females in GU, and females of CHamoru ethnicity in GU. In contrast, early onset CIRs increased across all locations, sexes, and ethnic groups, except for Filipinos in HI and males of Filipino ethnicity in HI. Our findings provide crucial insights for future research and policy development aimed at reducing the burden of CRC among indigenous populations.
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