American Indian Studies Program

We are also hosting a reading group to familiarize ourselves with the keynote topic. The PDF of the readings will be provided.

RSVP: Please sign up by April 17 using this link: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/1153417687.

We will be reading the following, per suggestion by the speaker, and two chapters from Cooling the Tropics. 

1. June Jordan, “Report from the Bahamas, 1982,” Meridians 3, no. 2 (2003), 6-16.
2. Rob Nixon, “Stranger in the Eco-Village: Race, Tourism, and Environmental Time,” in Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), 175-198.
3. Teresia Teaiwa, “Reading Gauguin’s Noa Noa with Hauʻofa’s Kisses in the Nederends: Militourism, Feminism, and the “Polyneisan” Body,” in Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific, eds. Vilsoni Hereniko and Rob Wilson (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), 254-255.
4. Hi’ilei Hobart, “Introduction” and “Making Ice Local: Technology, Infrastructure, and Cold Power in the Kalakaua Era” in Cooling the Tropics: ice, indigeneity, and Hawaiian refreshment (Durham, Duke University Press, 2022), 1-20 & 71-90