... The encounter that accompanies the spread of empire silences the voices of the colonized and missionized, making it difficult to make the historical narratives of empire audible. In this essay, Bohlman opens the space of imperial encounter by employing the methods and metaphors of triangulation...

... This chapter analyzes the critique of U.S. empire by socially conscious South Asian American (or desi) rappers in the United States and the role of hip hop as the “soundtrack to the revolution(s)” in the Arab Spring. These artists illustrate the concept of “post-9/11 Brown”—an antiracist global...

... This chapter reconstructs the entanglements that brought Māori and Europeans into sustained connection and which incorporated New Zealand into the discourses and economic networks of the British Empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It demonstrates that this long...

... between the ability of Māori to shape everyday forms of knowledge production on the ground at the edge of the empire and their limited control over missionary and humanitarian texts produced in the imperial metropole, a divergence that is central in making sense of the colonization of New Zealand...