Radiation Songs and Transpacific Resonances of US Imperial Transits

• Published in: Journal of transnational American studies Vol. 11; no. 2
• Main Author: Schwartz, Jessica A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles University of California Digital Library - eScholarship 14.12.2020; eScholarship Publishing, University of California
• Subjects: 10 to 12 keywords for database searches; Biomedicine; Colonialism; Free association; Humanities; Imperialism; Islands; Mass media; Politics; Radiation; separate with semi-colons; Singers; Songs; Sovereignty; Women; United States > US; Marshall Islands

This article listens to Marshallese radiation songs to hear how singers subject to US nuclear colonial practices—including US nuclear testing (1946–1958), extant displacement, and human radiation experimentation—continue to be ignored in official capacities, even after nuclear colonialism officially...