Camilla Fojas is Vincent de Paul Professor and the director of Latin American and Latino studies at DePaul University. She is the author of Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier and coeditor of Mixed-Race Hollywood. Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. is an assistant professor of Asian Pacific American studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego and coeditor of Crossing Lines: Race and Mixed Race across the Geohistorical Divide.

Camilla Fojas is Vincent de Paul Professor and the director of Latin American and Latino studies at DePaul University. She is the author of Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier and coeditor of Mixed-Race Hollywood. Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. is an assistant professor of Asian Pacific American studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego and coeditor of Crossing Lines: Race and Mixed Race across the Geohistorical Divide.

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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