Full Description
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.
Contents
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 Hawaii and California, 1920s1940s
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
kuualoha hoomanawanui
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 Hawaii, 19001928
JoAnna Poblete
Part 4. Crossroads of American Migration
11. The "Yellow Peril" in the United States and Peru: A Transnational History of Japanese Exclusion, 1920sWorld War II
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
