Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific

Contents

List of Illustrations | x Introduction | 1 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 | 33 Faye Christine Caronan 2. Imperial Works: Writing the United States after 1898 | 57 Camilla Fojas 3. Hawaiian Quilts, Global Domesticities, and Patterns of Counterhegemony | 87 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 | 121 Jinah Kim 5. (De)Constructing Multiple Gaps: Divisions and Disparities between Asian Americans and Latina/os in a Los Angeles County High School | 143 Gilda L. Ochoa, Laura E. Enriquez, Sandra Hamada, and Jenniffer Rojas Contents 6. Mabuhay Compañero: Filipinos, Mexicans, and Interethnic Labor Organizing in Hawai‘i and California, 1920s–1940s | 171 Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. Part 3. The American Pacific 7. Spectacles of Citizenship: Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Gets a Makeover | 201 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 | 229 ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui 9. Re-archiving Asian Settler Colonialism in a Time of Hawaiian Decolonization, or, Two Walks along Kamehameha Highway | 269 Bianca Isaki 10. Multitasking Mediators: Intracolonial Leadership in Filipino and Puerto Rican Communities in Hawai‘i, 1900–1928 | 291 JoAnna Poblete Part 4. Crossroads of American Migration 11. The “Yellow Peril” in the United States and Peru: A Transnational History of Japanese Exclusion, 1920s–World War II | 315 Erika Lee 12. Crossing Borders, Locating Home: Ethical Responsibility in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange | 359 Stella Oh 13. Chinese Migration to the Western Hemisphere: Multiraciality, Transgenerational Trauma, and Comparative Studies of the Americas | 377 Claudia Sadowski-Smith 14. Unequal Transpacific Capital Transfers: Japanese Brazilians and Japanese Americans in Japan | 403 Jane H. Yamashiro and Hugo Córdova Quero 15. Ganbateando: The Peruvian Nisei Association and Okinawan Peruvians in Los Angeles | 427 Ryan Masaaki Yokota Contributors | 461 Index | 469 ...