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Pacific Postcards (S21 final essays)

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For their final essays, students in spring 2021 selected a primary source (textual, visual, aural, material, or in another media) and used the source to respond to the arguments of a scholar we read together in class. Some students showed how new evidence offered ways to strengthen a scholar's existing claims, while other students used their sources to critique a scholar's arguments.

One student, for example, argued that the Pearl Harbor Memorial, along with its importance to American and Native Hawaiian histories, should also be seen as a meaningful site for Japanese memory and national identity. Another argued engaged Joshua Reid's work to argue that Spanish exploration narratives enrich our perspective of Northwest Coast Native peoples. And a third student argued that focusing on the lands and waters of BIkini Atoll can lead us to miss the experiences of Bikinians themselves.

These and the other essays in this section chart new courses for future Pacific investigations.

 

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  1. Pacific Postcards Sean Fraga

Contents of this path:

  1. Switching the "Barbaric" Natives Narrative (S.W.)
  2. Connecting Indigenous Hawaiian Music to Western Civilization (Michael Groner)
  3. Where the Watermelons Grow: An Analysis of Booker’s "Down by the Bay" (Stefan Popescu)
  4. Does Not Such a Meeting Make Amends? (Bridget Persson)
  5. Fishing Technology: Strengthening Reid's Argument (T.A.)
  6. Connections Between the Guano Islands, American Imperialism, and Eurocentric Views (Isabela Alameda)
  7. The Many Meanings of the Pearl Harbor Memorial (Kalei Stambaugh)
  8. Pacific Potential, Pacific Fantasies (Chris Yi)
  9. The Impact of Transcontinental Railroad Construction on Indigenous People (Rafael Perez)
  10. Consequences of Chinese Involvement in the Transcontinental Railroad (Ethan Vicente)
  11. Ensuring a True Global Perspective of the Transcontinental Railroad (Fabiano Andrade)
  12. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific (Michael Eghbal)
  13. Tiki Bar Authenticity: The Rise of Tiki Bars and Imperial Influence (Ruby Telles)
  14. The Real Importance of Bikini Atoll (Eli Kleinmann)
  15. Pearl Harbor: Attack On Hawaiian Sovereignty (Daniel Han)