Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific

Contributors

maile arvin grew up in Richmond, Kentucky, and Ka -neohe, Hawai‘i. A graduate of Swarthmore College, she now resides in San Diego and is a PhD student in uc San Diego’s Ethnic Studies Department. Her research focuses on race in Hawai‘i, the history and present of the Ka -naka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) sovereignty movement, and global indigenous rights. A poet and essayist, she has also published work in Kearny Street Workshop’s Same Time, Same Place (2006) and 12 Ways: An Anthology of the Intergenerational Writer’s Workshop (2007). faye christine caronan is an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, Denver. She specializes in comparative ethnic studies and the study of U.S. imperialism. Currently she is working on two research projects. The first examines how Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican performance poets participate in a politics of representing U.S. imperialism. The second looks at the role that race played in the imagining of the U.S. nation and its empire in the Pacific in the first half of the twentieth century. laura e. enriquez received her ba from Pomona College and her ma from the University of California, Los Angeles. Currently Contributors contributors 462 she is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of California , Los Angeles, specializing in immigration, race/ethnicity, and gender. Her work focuses on the educational experiences and political incorporation of undocumented young adults, where she engages in issues of racialization, social capital formation, citizenship , and political and civic participation. camilla fojas is Vincent de Paul Professor and the director of Latin American and Latino studies at DePaul University. Her main areas of research are cultural, film, and media studies of the Americas and the American Pacific, especially with regard to the construction of race and national borders. Her books include Cosmopolitanism in the Americas (Purdue University Press, 2005), Mixed Race Hollywood (coedited with Mary Beltrán, New York University Press, 2008), and Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier (University of Texas Press, 2008). vernadette vicuña gonzalez is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Ma -noa. She is currently working on a book titled “Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawaii and the Philippines.” Her latest essays, a collaborative effort with Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, appear in Duke University Press’s Alien Encounters: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (edited by Mimi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Tu) and in Frontiers : A Journal of Women Studies. rudy p. guevarra jr. is an assistant professor of Asian Pacific American studies at Arizona State University. His main areas of research are comparative and relational examinations between Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Chicana/os and Latina/ os, multiracial and multiethnic identity, labor history, immigration and transnational migration, and community formations. He is the author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego (Rutgers University Press, 2012) and the coeditor (with Marc Coronado, Jeffrey Moniz, and Laura Furlan Szanto) and a contributing author of Crossing Lines: Race and contributors 463 Mixed Race across the Geohistorical Divide (Alta Mira Press, 2005). He has also published essays in the Journal of San Diego History and the Journal of Asian American Studies. sandra hamada received her ba in sociology at Pomona College , where as a research assistant with Dr. Gilda Ochoa she studied the educational experiences of Asian American and Latina/o high school students. As an undergraduate she became passionate about and involved in feminist, race, and class politics. As a Claremont Graduate University Ronald E. McNair scholar, she presented and published a study on Asian American student activism. Motivated by her research and her own educational experience, she currently fights for quality education in South Los Angeles as a community organizer. ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian ) woman born in Kailua, O‘ahu, and raised in Wailua, Kaua‘i. A scholar, poet, musician, and artist, she is also the chief editor of ‘Oiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal, the first contemporary journal featuring Native Hawaiian writers and artists. With a PhD in English, an ma in Hawaiian religion, and a ba in Hawaiian studies from the University of Hawai‘i at Ma -noa, she has taught a variety of courses at different levels over the past decade focusing on Native Hawaiian mythology, literature, and indigenous perspectives on literacy. A Ford Foundation predoctoral and...