...Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez This essay reflects on the work that Detours, a decolonial educational tours project, carries out in the militarized zone of Pu‘uloa / Pearl Harbor on the island of O‘ahu. The essay contrasts the itinerary and narratives that Detours offers with the experience that most...

...Marilyn B. Young Saving Private Ryan , directed by Steven Spielberg. Dreamworks, 1998. Pearl Harbor , directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2001. Black Hawk Down , directed by Ridley Scott. Columbia Pictures, 2001. We Were Soldiers , directed Randall...

...- dise. Yet the state is also the militarized hub of the United States’ vast archipelago of military bases, stretching from Pearl Harbor to Guam to Okinawa. As Teresia Teaiwa has argued, tourism and the military work together to obscure long histories of colonial conquest, resource extraction...

... presidents. ”Oh, we’re going to expose them. God .. . Pearl Harbor! The Democratic Party will go down without a trace if we do this correctly,” Nixon boasted to aides of his plan to find documents that would blame FDR for the success of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. ”I’m going to give...

... workers following Pearl 60/RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW Harbor, demand for prostitutes soared. With so many white men lin- ing up outside the brothels, the two-door policy was abandoned for the duration and men of color were simply not served. A couple of brothels in the district did not observe...

... to be happening. The very scale of the attacks seemed to call for dramatic action. At the heart of the Bush administration’s framing of the attacks, after all, was the word war. This framework made the attacks an act of war, not a crime. The Pearl Harbor attack of December 7, 1941, which had united...

.... In press accounts that appeared in the days following the attacks, interviewees, pundits, commentators, President George W. Bush, and members of his administration repeatedly mentioned the attacks on Pearl Harbor as a reference point, a suggestion that performed significant cultural work. Collective...

... incarceration of Japanese Americans. My fears mounted when I realized that the exhibit had been tucked away on the third floor between the military history section and an exhibit on firearms and ordnance. I fully expected to walk into a reminder of Pearl Harbor, “sneaky Japs,” and intern- ment...

...” to a rapid conclusion and avoiding an American invasion against a barbaric and fanatically resistant foe. Although Truman initially emphasized revenge for Pearl Harbor, subsequent justifications have stressed instead the tremendous number of Americans who would have been killed and wounded...

... an agenda of anti-militarism. The problem with this approach, however, is that out of someone like Anzai’s hands, it is too easily reducible into simplistic historical tit-for- tat, where Pearl Harbor cancels out Hiroshima, which cancels out the Nanking Massacre. Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park...

... in a different way. The administration also uses Cold War categories of space—such as Ground Zero and Pearl Harbor—but it hollows out the U.S. role in their initial constitution. In this respect, as Amy Kaplan writes, it reclaims an “American innocence” by projecting...

... opposed or were un- easy with removal nevertheless tried to find as much common ground with government policy as possible, often straining for indications that they would not have to oppose the FDR administration on this issue. Given the popularity of the war effort after Pearl Harbor, as well...

... opposed or were un- easy with removal nevertheless tried to find as much common ground with government policy as possible, often straining for indications that they would not have to oppose the FDR administration on this issue. Given the popularity of the war effort after Pearl Harbor, as well...

... with Pearl Harbor. Especially those who fled for their lives down the steps of the towers, often having to leave others behind, and who witnessed the carnage at close range were offended by a comparison between the massacre they lived through and an attack on a military base. The majority of New...

...-rolling auction house in New York, took its own somewhat embarrassing plunge last December into the merchandizing of morbidity. In one of its characteristically ex- quisite displays of taste and sensitivity, the venerable house tastefully chose Pearl Harbor Day as the occasion to put up...

... opened World War II Memorial and discovered that the inscription on the memorial’s Pacific section of FDR’s “date which will live in infamy” speech about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had “left out the end of the quote . . . the most important part” — where Roosevelt said, “so help us God...

... the youth, a chorus of American intellectuals in the years before Pearl Harbor called for the repudiation of those modes of thought that had moral- ly disarmed the United States for the coming struggle. Leading writers-Archibald MacLeish, Lewis Mumford, Van Wyck Brooks, Bernard de Voto, Waldo...

..., not the victims, which Japanese authors of textbooks had to admit. Equally shocking, Nishikawa | The Specter of World History 113 the textbook authors began to uncover and report that Japanese troops attacked Kotabaru in Sumatra before Pearl Harbor. In 1982, I, along...

... was willing to join the Japanese army? Pro-Japanese sympathies were developing in the colonized world after Pearl Harbor, and the streets of Harlem were not immune to them.g In December 1942, Nation of Islam leaders 10\RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW went on trial in Chicago for what the police viewed...

.... As it turns out, the Bush men have been picking over the bones of the nation's past for longer than we had imagined. Another Whitewash? This long-standing Bush family interest in American history casts a different light on George's identification of September 7th as Pearl Harbor Day...