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193 notes introduction 1. “Uniting of the Orient and the Occident,” Seattle Times, Aug. 31, 1896. 2. Report of Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration: Report and Evidence (Ottawa, 1885), 155–60. 3. For a recent intervention in borderland studies that calls for a wider, hemispheric approach among its practitioners, see Jeremy Adelman and Stephen Aron, “From Borderlands to Borders: Empires, Nation-States, and the Peoples in Between in North American History,” American Historical Review 104 (June 1999): 814–841. On the U.S.-Canadian borderlands, see Ken Coates and John M. Findlay, eds. Parallel Destinies: Canadians, Americans, and the Western Border (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002); Benjamin Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill, Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010); Sheila McManus, The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005). For a selection of the rich literature on the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, see Neil Foley, White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997); Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000); Samuel Truett, Fugitive Landscapes : The Forgotten History of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006); Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (New York: New York University Press, 2008); Katherine Benton-Cohen, Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009). 4. Richard Drinnon, Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997). See also Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876–1917 (New York: Hill and Wang, 2000); and Rob Wilson, 9780520271685_Notes.indd 193 19/03/12 11:31 AM 194 • notes Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000). 5. See Gerald Horne, The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007), 6. On this point, also Oscar Campomanes, “New Formations of Asian American Studies and the Question of U.S. Imperialism,” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 5 (1997): 523–550. 6. Henry Yu, “Los Angeles and American Studies in a Pacific World of Migrations,” American Quarterly 56:3 (Sept., 2004): 531–543. For recent efforts to re-orient U.S. history to the Pacific, see Bruce Cumings, Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009); Gary Y. Okihiro, Island World: A History of Hawai’i and the United States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008). 7. On how struggles over Asian migration in the Anglophone world spawned new migration and border controls, see Aristide Zolberg, “The Great Wall against China: Responses to the First Immigration Crisis, 1885–1925,” in Migration, Migration History, History: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives, ed. Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen (Bern: Peter Lang, 1999); Erika Lee, At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003); Adam McKeown, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008); and Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, Drawing the Global Colour Line (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). 8. On how the illegal Mexican alien and the southern boundary were mutually constructed, see George J. Sanchez, Becoming Mexican-American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 38–62; Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), 56–90; Joseph Nevins, OperationGatekeeper:TheRiseofthe“Illegal Alien”and the Makingofthe U.S.-Mexico Boundary(NewYork:Routledge,2002);NicholasDeGenova,WorkingtheBoundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005); Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010); and Rachel St. John, Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). 9. On how efforts to discipline and control imperial subjects was ultimately brought to bear on “domestic” spies and subversives, see Alfred McCoy, Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009). 10. 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