Contributors
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Yong Chen is associate professor of history at UC Irvine, where he also served as the associate dean of the Graduate Division from 1999–2004. He is the author of Chinese San Francisco 1850–1943: A Transpacific Community (Stanford University Press, 2000) and Huaren de jiujinshan (Chinese in San Francisco) in Chinese (Peking University Press, 2009) as well as co-editor of New Perspectives on American History in Chinese and English (Hebei People publishing house, China, 2010). He was also curator of a museum exhibit of America’s Chinese restaurant history in New York and Philadelphia.
Mary Yu Danico is professor and Vice-chair of the Psychology and Sociology Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is the author of The 1.5 Generation: Becoming Korean American in Hawaii and Asian American Issues, coauthored with Franklin Ng. Her next book, “Transforming the Academy: Challenging Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia,” co-edited with Brett Stockdill, is under review. She is currently working on another book, “Korean American Diaspora: Gyopos Reverse Migration to Korea.”
Madeline Y. Hsu is director of the Center for Asian American Studies and an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. She edited Him Mark Lai’s Transnational Chinese American Politics (University of Illinois Press, 2010) and is currently researching the migration of Chinese intellectuals and U.S. foreign policy during the cold war.
Mariam Lam is associate professor of comparative literature, media & cultural studies and Southeast Asian studies at UC Riverside. She is founding co-editor of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies by the University of California Press. Her forthcoming book is entitled Not Coming to Terms: Viet Nam, Post-Trauma and Cultural Politics (Duke University Press). [End Page 411]
Madhavi Mallapragada is assistant professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Her interests include Asian American media, digital cultures and transnational community formations. She is working on a book manuscript that examines the intersections between Web cultures and community formations in the Indian American context.
Mari Matsuda is a professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is the author of Where is Your Body?: And Other Essays on Race, Gender and the Law and co-author (with Charles R. Lawrence III) of We Won’t Go Back: Making the Case for Affirmative Action.
Davianna Pomaika‘i McGregor is professor and founding member of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and a historian of Hawai‘i and the Pacific. Her ongoing research documents the persistence of traditional Hawaiian cultural customs, beliefs, and practices in rural Hawaiian communities she calls cultural kipuka. She is a member of the Protect Kaho‘olawe ‘Ohana.
Jonathan Y. Okamura is associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He is the author of Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai‘i and Imagining the Filipino American Diaspora and co-editor with Candace Fujikane of Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai‘i. He is currently working on a book on Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i.
Michael Omi teaches Asian American studies and comparative ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a past recipient of UC Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award—an honor bestowed on only 232 Berkeley faculty members since the award’s inception in 1959. He is the co-author of Racial Formation in the United States.
Lisa Sun-Hee Park is associate professor of sociology and Asian American studies at the University of Minnesota. She is currently completing a project on the impact of welfare and immigration policies on Asian and Latina immigrant women’s health care access as well as a second study (with D.N. Pellow) on nativism and environmental privilege in Aspen, Colorado. She has published two books: Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Stanford University Press 2005) and Silicon Valley of Dreams: Immigrant Labor, Environmental Injustice, and the High Tech Global Economy (co-authored with David N. Pellow, NYU Press 2002).
Dean Itsuji Saranillio is a University of California...
