Sione Lynn Pili Lister
Biographic Data
| ID | 171347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sione Lynn Pili Lister |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sione Lynn Pili |
| FAMILY NAME | Lister |
| SIGNATURE | LISTER S L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5774-4110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lessons From the Peripheries
The US territories—Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guåhan, and American Sāmoa—remain permanently subordinated under US rule. Governed through legal frameworks of unincorporation, these places are denied full sovereignty while granted limited mobility and partial political recognition. Territorial migrants occupy distinct social, political, and legal positions that often set their experiences apart from their larg…
Putting a Label on It
Following a long sociological tradition examining the intersection between social institutions and race, we analyze how South Carolina’s historical state legislation constructed and used racial categories during a period of considerable social upheaval. We identify over 500 statutes between 1850 and 1920 pertaining to Black-White relations, examine the usage of racial labels in these statutes—their content, frequency, and context—and assess how l…
Relational Colonialisms and a Turn to Place Based Epistemologies
This paper introduces a Relational Colonialisms Framework informed by Indigenous Pasifika epistemologies tā (time), vā (relational space), and teu le va (the ethic of relational care) to expand dominant sociological understandings of U.S. settler colonialism beyond the contiguous United States. I show how the temporal, spatial, and relational assumptions of settler colonial theory often obscure the layered, shifting, and entangled colonial logics…
We Don't Want to Use the White Man's Terminology
Drawing from 40 in-depth interviews with self-identified Pacific Islanders, I examine how Pacific Islanders develop their pan-ethno-racial identity alongside their Indigeneity within the U.S. racial hierarchy. I find that settler colonialism plays an active role in individuals' identity formation-both as a historic event and as a contemporary structure-in three critical ways. First, respondents engage with colonialism as they negotiate ethnoracia…
Whiteness and Impunity
How do people who consider themselves law abiding mobilize against 'offensive' laws? Stated differently, how do people assert impunity? Although sociologists robustly document the unequal administration of American law, most focus on the production and legitimation of racial disparities through punishment rather thanimpunity. We use theories of Whiteness to analyze Virginia's Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions, illuminating how impunity is re…
Whiteness and Impunity
How do people who consider themselves law abiding mobilize against 'offensive' laws? Stated differently, how do people assert impunity? Although sociologists robustly document the unequal administration of American law, most focus on the production and legitimation of racial disparities through punishment rather thanimpunity. We use theories of Whiteness to analyze Virginia's Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions, illuminating how impunity is re…
Whiteness and Impunity
How do people who consider themselves law abiding mobilize against 'offensive' laws? Stated differently, how do people assert impunity? Although sociologists robustly document the unequal administration of American law, most focus on the production and legitimation of racial disparities through punishment rather thanimpunity. We use theories of Whiteness to analyze Virginia's Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions, illuminating how impunity is re…
Putting a Label on It
Following a long sociological tradition examining the intersection between social institutions and race, we analyze how South Carolina’s historical state legislation constructed and used racial categories during a period of considerable social upheaval. We identify over 500 statutes between 1850 and 1920 pertaining to Black-White relations, examine the usage of racial labels in these statutes—their content, frequency, and context—and assess how l…
Relational Colonialisms and a Turn to Place Based Epistemologies
This paper introduces a Relational Colonialisms Framework informed by Indigenous Pasifika epistemologies tā (time), vā (relational space), and teu le va (the ethic of relational care) to expand dominant sociological understandings of U.S. settler colonialism beyond the contiguous United States. I show how the temporal, spatial, and relational assumptions of settler colonial theory often obscure the layered, shifting, and entangled colonial logics…
We Don't Want to Use the White Man's Terminology
Drawing from 40 in-depth interviews with self-identified Pacific Islanders, I examine how Pacific Islanders develop their pan-ethno-racial identity alongside their Indigeneity within the U.S. racial hierarchy. I find that settler colonialism plays an active role in individuals' identity formation-both as a historic event and as a contemporary structure-in three critical ways. First, respondents engage with colonialism as they negotiate ethnoracia…
Lessons From the Peripheries
The US territories—Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guåhan, and American Sāmoa—remain permanently subordinated under US rule. Governed through legal frameworks of unincorporation, these places are denied full sovereignty while granted limited mobility and partial political recognition. Territorial migrants occupy distinct social, political, and legal positions that often set their experiences apart from their larg…
Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Pacific islanders (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Algorithm (1 work)