Miscegenation and militarization: undoing racial colonial citizenship for the next century
Samuels, Philip Na’puti, Tiara R.
Samuels, Philip
Na’puti, Tiara R.
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2024-10-13
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Anti-blackness,Empire,Race,Rhetoric,Settler colonialism
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Samuels, P. D., (he/him), & Na’puti, T. R., (she/her). (2024). Miscegenation and militarization: undoing racial colonial citizenship for the next century. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 110(4), 643–648. https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2024.2410779
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This essay considers the Immigration Act of 1924, otherwise known as the Johnson-Reed Act (JRA), within historical and contemporary contexts of anti-miscegenation and Indigenous erasure that are undercurrents of citizenship and immigration processes. By using a framework of settler colonialism carried out by the U.S. nation-state, we explore connections among racialized peoples in U.S. American empire and the push for racial purity through systems of blood quantum and anti-miscegenation laws. With attention to how colonialism from the continental USA flows to locales such as Guåhan/Guam, a place enacting sovereignty despite occupation and colonial possession, we consider how immigration and citizenship are wielded as tools of U.S. American militarization. Ultimately, we argue that critiquing miscegenation and militarism is necessary to overcome racial and colonial violences of empire. © 2024 National Communication Association.
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Quarterly Journal of Speech
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00335630