Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies)

The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented migration and interaction for Asian, Latin American, and Pacific Islander cultures in the Americas and the American Pacific. Some of these ethnic groups already had historic ties, but technology, migration, and globalization during the twentieth century brought them into even closer contact. __Transnational Crossroads__ explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950. 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. The End Of Empire : Spanish And U.s. Imperialism: Postcolonial Im/migration And Transnational Activist Practices : Filipino American And U.s. Puerto Rican Performance Poet Activism / Faye Christine Caronan ; Imperial Works : Writing The United States After 1898 / Camilla Fojas ; Hawaiian Quilts, Global Domesticities, And Patterns Of Counterhegemony / Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez -- Comparative Racialization : Trans-american Pacific Racial Formations: Dismantling Privileged Settings : Japanese American Internees And Mexican Braceros At The Crossroads Of World War Ii / Jinah Kim ; (de)constructing Multiple Gaps : Divisions And Disparities Between Asian Americans And Latina/os In A Los Angeles County High School / Gilda L. Ochoa ... [et Al.] ; Mabuhay Compañero : Filipinos, Mexicans, And Interethnic Labor Organizing In Hawai'i And California, 1920s-1940s / Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. --^ The American Pacific: Spectacles Of Citizenship : Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Gets A Makeover / Maile Arvin ; From Captain Cook To Captain Kirk, Or, From Colonial Exploration To Indigenous Exploitation : Issues Of Hawaiian Land, Identity, And Nationhood In A Postethnic World / Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui ; Re-archiving Asian Settler Colonialism In A Time Of Hawaiian Decolonization, Or, Two Walks Along Kamehameha Highway / Bianca Isaki ; Multitasking Mediators : Intracolonial Leadership In Filipino And Puerto Rican Communities In Hawai'i, 1900-1928 / Joanna Poblete --^ Crossroads Of American Migration: The Yellow Peril In The United States And Peru : A Transnational History Of Japanese Exclusion, 1920s-world War Ii / Erika Lee ; Crossing Borders, Locating Home : Ethical Responsibility In Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic Of Orange / Stella Oh ; Chinese Migration To The Western Hemisphere : Multiraciality, Transgenerational Trauma, And Comparative Studies Of The Americas / Claudia Sadowski-smith ; Unequal Transpacific Capital Transfers : Japanese Brazilians And Japanese Americans In Japan / Jane H. Yamashiro And Hugo Córdova Quero ; Ganbateando : The Peruvian Nisei Association And Okinawan Peruvians In Los Angeles / Ryan Masaaki Yokota. Edited By Camilla Fojas & Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.