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The article presents the author's views on the Pacific Region as an important aspect of American studies, highlighting the connection between Native Pacific studies and American studies. He explores the syllabus for a course that he teaches at Wesleyan University to illustrate several ways that American studies and Native Pacific studies can be engaged productively. Also discussed are indigenous peoples' resistance to U.S. colonization, Hawaiians' colonial histography, and American imperialism.

The article presents the author's views on the American Empire, highlighting the connection between Pacific studies and Native American studies. The American Empire reportedly includes American Samoa and Puerto Rico which makes the U.S. the largest overseas territorial power worldwide. Also discussed are the principles and processes of territoriality, settler colonialism, and Pacific maritime territorialism.

An essay is presented on Guåhan (Guam) as a site wherein studies can deal with militarism to the U.S.' constitution of imperial identities and power, highlighting the efforts to protect and defend Pågat that is sacred to the native people, Chamorus. Guam's history is explored which is an unincorporated and organized territory of the U.S. Also discussed are Chamorus' efforts to stop the U.S. from building a firing range at Pågat and American imperialism.

The article discusses the role of New York City in developing movements supporting both sides of imperialism and colonization, focusing on ideas of Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi in her books "Empire of Dreams" and "United States of Banana." Other topics include literary representation of gender dysfunction in New York, colonial-imperial relations in the the Americas, and the status of Puerto Rico vis-à-vis the U.S.

This article shows that the ambiguity of the relationship of Guántanamo, Cuba to the United States is the legacy of the Insular Cases, wherein the Supreme Court ruled in several cases beginning in 1901 that the U.S. could rule over distant territories and peoples with impunity and without constitutional restraint. Gives the many debates about the balance between national security and civil liberties, the rights of the prisoners, the extent of U.S. legal jurisdiction and the question of national sovereignty and some of the history of the United States' claim about Guánamo.

This article shows how American imperialism has consisted efforts to impose limits upon territorial expansion and what the association of imperialism with the expansion of territory is and the projection of power and the imposition of sovereignty. Use of the history of the American Guano Islands shows the wide range of legal practices of boundary management that attended territorial expansion.