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xk81jh37s2d	Sejoo Kim	American Postcolony: Imperial Citizenship and the Rise of Garment Metropolis in the Pacific, 1944-1999	2021		.txt	text/plain	379	12	23	Furthermore, their multilayered interactions in the Marianas suggest that histories of U.S. territories are not reduced to the metropole-colony binary but unfold in larger regional and global contexts that give distinct meanings to places like the Marianas. My dissertation explicates why and what followed after the Northern Marianas, a dependent territory under the UN trusteeship, renounced sovereignty at the height of anticolonial movements around the globe and joined the U.S. political union in 1976.To answer these questions, my dissertation traces the long lineage of the Marianas garment industry, one of the most controversial byproducts of the Marianas' membership in the U.S. political union.	cache/xk81jh37s2d.txt	txt/xk81jh37s2d.txt