America’s late-nineteenth-century move into the Atlantic and the Pacific was the continuation of a sustained process of often violent occupation that had imposed control across the continent. This panel explores the parallels and consequences of this expansion of Manifest Destiny out into the oceans.
Featured Panelists:
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Hawaiʻi (Zoom)
Julian Aguon, Guåhan and the Pacific (Zoom)
Dean Saranillio, Hawaiʻi and the Philippines
Vernadette Gonzalez, Hawaiʻi and the Philippines
Moderator:
Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio
The 1898 Project is a two-day summit of leading scholars and activists on American imperialism from Hawaiʻi, Guåhan, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico; the how and why, its effects, and what can be done now and in the future to cope, heal, and decolonize.