... of why the UN still matters to Palestine. The chapter offers suggestions for ensuring a better future for the Palestinian people as compared to the past twenty years, as well as for realizing Palestinian efforts at achieving statehood. globalization Nakba Occupied Palestinian Territory OPT Oslo...

...This chapter focuses on the United Nations's Palestinian “statehood” bid starting in 2011. In May 2011, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)/Palestinian Authority (PA) announced that it would seek membership as a state within the UN. The UN statehood bid would alter the PLO's status...

...This chapter examines the role of Hawai‘i during the Vietnam War, focusing on how discourses of racial liberalism that were cemented through statehood in 1959 became enacted through the military deployments of the 25^th Infantry Division. It also discusses the army training practices...

...The chapters in this book begin an overdue examination of some of California's Statehood and Constitutional Era and test and modify long-standing perceptions. Each chapter discusses an important element of California's early affairs, with an emphasis on looking anew at government's role...

... to this Spanish language reality in their campaign to portray the territory as unfit for statehood. During the Senate subcommittee hearings, dozens of New Mexicans relayed their connection to both their United States citizenship and their use of the Spanish language. From census takers to court interpreters...

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