Transnational Crossroads Remapping the Americas and the Pacific
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Camilla Fojas is Vincent de Paul Professor and the director of Latin American and Latino studies at DePaul University. She is the author of Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier and coeditor of Mixed-Race Hollywood. Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. is an assistant professor of Asian Pacific American studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego and coeditor of Crossing Lines: Race and Mixed Race across the Geohistorical Divide.<p>"<i>Transnational Crossroads</i> is impressive in scope and purpose, weaving together discourses and narratives of empire, globalization, resistance, and cultural politics of converging Asian, Latina, and Pacific Islander communities. Its focus is most welcome and so exciting for engagement in these issues."—Rona Halualani, author of <i>In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics<br /></i><br /></p> "<i>Transnational Crossroads</i> is unique and a wonderful triangulation of Pacific Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos. It will be a sourcebook for both graduate and undergraduate courses in critical race studies, comparative ethnic studies, core courses in American studies, and migration studies."—Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of <i>Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora<br /></i> <p>"This book offers fresh new insights, as only such a broadly conceived interdisciplinary work could, into many different areas such as modern Asian, U.S., and global histories."-Kwangmin Kim, <i>Journal of American Ethnic History</i></p>
Through a comparative framework, this volume weaves together narratives of U.S. and Spanish empire, globalization, resistance, and identity, as well as social, labor, and political movements. Contributors examine multiethnic celebrities and key figures, migratory paths, cultural productions, and social and political formations among these three groups. Engaging multiple disciplines and methodologies, these studies of Asian American, Latin American, and Pacific Islander cultural interactions explode traditional notions of ethnic studies and introduce new approaches to transnational and comparative studies of the Americas and the American Pacific.
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Camilla Fojas and Rudy P. Guevarra Jr.
Part 1. The End of Empire: Spanish and U.S. Imperialism
1. Postcolonial Im/migration and Transnational Activist Practices: Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican Performance Poet Activism
Faye Christine Caronan
2. Imperial Works: Writing the United States after 1898
Camilla Fojas
3. Hawaiian Quilts, Global Domesticities, and Patterns of Counterhegemony
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
Part 2. Comparative Racialization: Trans-American Pacific Racial Formations
4. Dismantling Privileged Settings: Japanese American Internees and Mexican Braceros at the Crossroads of World War II
Jinah Kim
5. (De)Constructing Multiple Gaps: Divisions and Disparities between Asian Americans and Latina/os in a Los Angeles County High School
Gilda L. Ochoa, Laura E. Enriquez, Sandra Hamada, and Jenniffer Rojas
6. Mabuhay Compañero: Filipinos, Mexicans, and Interethnic Labor Organizing in Hawai
Rudy P. Guevarra Jr.
Part 3. The American Pacific
7. Spectacles of Citizenship: Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Gets a Makeover
Maile Arvin
8. From Captain Cook to Captain Kirk, or, From Colonial Exploration to Indigenous Exploitation: Issues of Hawaiian Land, Identity, and Nationhood in a "Postethnic" World
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9. Re-archiving Asian Settler Colonialism in a Time of Hawaiian Decolonization, or, Two Walks along Kamehameha Highway
Bianca Isaki
10. Multitasking Mediators: Intracolonial Leadership in Filipino and Puerto Rican Communities in Hawai
JoAnna Poblete
Part 4. Crossroads of American Migration
11. The "Yellow Peril" in the United States and Peru: A Transnational History of Japanese Exclusion, 1920s
Erika Lee
12. Crossing Borders, Locating Home: Ethical Responsibility in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange
Stella Oh
13. Chinese Migration to the Western Hemisphere: Multiraciality, Transgenerational Trauma, and Comparative Studies of the Americas
Claudia Sadowski-Smith
14. Unequal Transpacific Capital Transfers: Japanese Brazilians and Japanese Americans in Japan
Jane H. Yamashiro and Hugo Córdova Quero
15. Ganbateando: The Peruvian Nisei Association and Okinawan Peruvians in Los Angeles
Ryan Masaaki Yokota
Contributors
Index