Transnational Crossroads

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.

"Transnational Crossroads 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 In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics"Transnational Crossroads 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 Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora"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, Journal of American Ethnic History

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionCamilla Fojas and Rudy P. Guevarra Jr.Part 1. The End of Empire: Spanish and U.S. Imperialism1. Postcolonial Im/migration and Transnational Activist Practices: Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican Performance Poet ActivismFaye Christine Caronan2. Imperial Works: Writing the United States after 1898Camilla Fojas3. Hawaiian Quilts, Global Domesticities, and Patterns of CounterhegemonyVernadette Vicuña GonzalezPart 2. Comparative Racialization: Trans-American Pacific Racial Formations4. Dismantling Privileged Settings: Japanese American Internees and Mexican Braceros at the Crossroads of World War IIJinah Kim5. (De)Constructing Multiple Gaps: Divisions and Disparities between Asian Americans and Latina/os in a Los Angeles County High SchoolGilda L. Ochoa, Laura E. Enriquez, Sandra Hamada, and Jenniffer Rojas6. Mabuhay Compañero: Filipinos, Mexicans, and Interethnic Labor Organizing in Hawaii and California, 1920s1940sRudy P. Guevarra Jr.Part 3. The American Pacific7. Spectacles of Citizenship: Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Gets a MakeoverMaile Arvin8. From Captain Cook to Captain Kirk, or, From Colonial Exploration to Indigenous Exploitation: Issues of Hawaiian Land, Identity, and Nationhood in a "Postethnic" Worldkuualoha hoomanawanui9. Re-archiving Asian Settler Colonialism in a Time of Hawaiian Decolonization, or, Two Walks along Kamehameha HighwayBianca Isaki10. Multitasking Mediators: Intracolonial Leadership in Filipino and Puerto Rican Communities in Hawaii, 19001928JoAnna PobletePart 4. Crossroads of American Migration11. The "Yellow Peril" in the United States and Peru: A Transnational History of Japanese Exclusion, 1920sWorld War IIErika Lee12. Crossing Borders, Locating Home: Ethical Responsibility in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of OrangeStella Oh13. Chinese Migration to the Western Hemisphere: Multiraciality, Transgenerational Trauma, and Comparative Studies of the AmericasClaudia Sadowski-Smith14. Unequal Transpacific Capital Transfers: Japanese Brazilians and Japanese Americans in JapanJane H. Yamashiro and Hugo Córdova Quero15. Ganbateando: The Peruvian Nisei Association and Okinawan Peruvians in Los AngelesRyan Masaaki YokotaContributorsIndex