{"title":"Recognition, Resilience, and Relief: The Meaning of Gift","authors":"P. Kirwan","doi":"10.5070/t813158597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t813158597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44070810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Birdseye’s Frosted Possession: Processing, Storing, and Transmitting the Gift of Inuit Thermocultural Knowledge,","authors":"Marcel Brousseau","doi":"10.5070/t813158579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t813158579","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41772199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: The Molecular Intimacies of Empire","authors":"Hsuan L. Hsu, D. Vázquez","doi":"10.5070/t813158475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t813158475","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44427029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface","authors":"P. Kirwan","doi":"10.5070/t813158587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t813158587","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48273082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consider the Coconut: Scientific Agriculture and the Racialization of Risk in the American Colonial Philippines","authors":"T. Ventura","doi":"10.5070/t813158137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t813158137","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48951767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affective Chemistries of Care: Slow Activism and the Limits of the Molecular in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous","authors":"Rachel Lee","doi":"10.5070/t813158584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t813158584","url":null,"abstract":"Ocean Vuong’s 2019 debut novel, On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous (hereafter On Earth ) proceeds as a series of letters from the first-person narrator, Little Dog, to his mostly Vietnamese-speaking mother. 1 In these epistles, we learn of the storytelling prowess of both Ma (Rose) and Lan (Rose’s mother), and how the narrator’s own path toward becoming a writer stems from his vow, as a young refugee living in Connecticut, to help these two women—to have on his tongue the correct English words. 2 Also detailed are Little Dog’s teenage and early adult years, and his sense of becoming beautiful through the erotic gaze of a white boy, Trevor. The letters meditate on loss and grief, specifically of two persons whose deaths are recounted in these missives: Trevor, at age twenty-two, dies from a fentanyl overdose linked to his addiction to prescription opioids, and grandma Lan dies of advanced bone cancer.","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45609226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visions of Consent Nunavummiut Against the Exploitation of “Resource Frontiers”","authors":"Amber Hickey","doi":"10.5070/t813158583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t813158583","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45945468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Making of the American Calorie and the Metabolic Metrics of Empire","authors":"A. Choudhury","doi":"10.5070/t813158578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t813158578","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48706987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Radiation Effects to Consanguineous Marriages: American Geneticists and Colonial Science in the Atomic Age","authors":"A. Takeuchi-Demirci","doi":"10.5070/t813158580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t813158580","url":null,"abstract":"In 1947, the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) established the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC), funded by the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and sent American scientists to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to investigate the late effects of radiation exposure among atomic bomb survivors. James Neel, medical professor at the University of Michigan, headed the genetics team of the ABCC, whose mission was to assess possible genetic mutations caused by radiation. After the termination of the ABCC genetic studies in 1954, Neel and his colleague, William Schull, embarked on another project in Japan: the genetics of consanguinity—marriage among close relatives—in Japan. The radiation and consanguinity studies were ostensibly separate projects. Yet they used overlapping subjects and resources and helped establish Neel’s prominent position in human genetics in the postwar period. This article investigates why studies of inbreeding in Japan became a scientifically significant subject for Neel and other American geneticists of the postwar period. Their special attention to this breeding pattern, based on the data obtained from people residing in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki regions (not necessarily atomic bomb victims), reflected American fears of rising mutations among humans in a changing, “dystopian” world. These fears reflected anxieties that were the product of heightened radiation levels from nuclear weapons, an “exploding” global population, and the further mixing of different population groups as America expanded its empire. The data obtained in Japan helped scientists understand the types and number of genetic diseases that existed in different population groups. The data also helped them to estimate how much mutation human populations could manifest. Furthermore, Neel","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41588748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TGI Fridays In Kandahar: Fast Food, Military Contracting, and Intimacies of Force in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars","authors":"Zaynab Quadri","doi":"10.5070/t813158582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t813158582","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44920516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}