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Dissertation Information for JoAnna Uy Poblete-Cross

NAME:
- JoAnna Uy Poblete-Cross

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2006)

ADVISORS:
- Henry S.N. Yu

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- L. Robin Derby
- Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Intra-colonial lives: Puerto Rican and Filipino sugar plantation labor recruits to Hawai'i, 1900 to 1940

Abstract: Puerto Ricans and Filipinos in Hawai'i are part of a larger history of U.S. expansionism. Their experiences provide insight on the ways wards of the United States interact with U.S. government policies on a daily basis. The analysis of Puerto Rican and Filipino sugar plantation laborers in Hawai'i from 1900 to 1940 also provides new perspectives for studies of labor, migration and colonialism.

Not foreigners who moved from one independent nation to the U.S., Puerto Ricans and Filipinos in Hawai'i were intra-colonials. Colonized people living and working in a second colonized place, they were fully subject to U.S. authority. Their home regions did not have independent governments with power to negotiate with the U.S. government. But within such colonial rule, these U.S. dependents used their in-between legal status for their own advantage at the ground-level. Not aliens subject to immigration restrictions, these intra-colonial workers moved freely within the boundaries of the U.S. empire and experienced particular labor situations in the Territory of Hawai'i.

Through oral histories, Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association documents, Hawaiian Evangelical Association records, Puerto Rican newspapers, as well as Puerto Rican, Philippine, U.S. federal and Territory of Hawai'i government documents, I examine the form and function of U.S. colonialism through specific practices and individual decisions at the ground-level. Filipino and Puerto Rican U.S. colonials experienced different mobility, labor complaint processes, local leadership and identity issues, as well as recruitment and retention programs from U.S. citizens or foreign aliens. Their differing degrees of influence and control over specific intra-colonial processes also show how Puerto Rican and Filipino laborers in Hawai'i dealt with variant forms of U.S. colonial governance, labor policies and recruitment programs from each other. U.S. colonial policies differed according to each region's particular relationship with the United States. This work attempts to provide some useful perspectives for broader conceptions of U.S. labor, mobility, expansionism and colonialism.

MPACT Scores for JoAnna Uy Poblete-Cross

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