Transnational crossroads : remapping the Americas and the Pacific / edited by Camilla Fojas & Rudy p.Guevarra, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fojas, Camilla, 1971-

Guevarra, Rudy P., Jr.

Series:

Borderlands and transcultural studies.

Borderlands and transcultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic relations--History.

Ethnic relations.

United States--Ethnic relations--History.

United States.

Asia--Relations--United States--History.

Asia.

United States--Relations--Asia--History.

Latin America--Relations--United States--History.

Latin America.

United States--Relations--Latin America--History.

Islands of the Pacific--Relations--United States--History.

Islands of the Pacific.

United States--Relations--Islands of the Pacific.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented migration and interaction for Asian, Latin American, and Pacific Islander cultures in the Americas and the American Pacific. Some of these ethnic groups already had historic ties, but technology, migration, and globalization during the twentieth century brought them into even closer contact. Transnational Crossroads explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950.Through a comparative

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1. The End of Empire; 1. Postcolonial Im/migration and Transnational Activist Practices; 2. Imperial Works; 3. Hawaiian Quilts, Global Domesticities, and Patterns of Counterhegemony; Part 2. Comparative Racialization; 4. Dismantling Privileged Settings; 5. (De)Constructing Multiple Gaps; 6. Mabuhay Compañero; Part 3. The American Pacific; 7. Spectacles of Citizenship; 8. From Captain Cook to Captain Kirk, or, From Colonial Exploration to Indigenous Exploitation

9. Re-archiving Asian Settler Colonialism in a Time of Hawaiian Decolonization, or, Two Walks along Kamehameha Highway 10. Multitasking Mediators; Part 4. Crossroads of American Migration; 11. The "Yellow Peril" in the United States and Peru; 12. Crossing Borders, Locating Home; 13. Chinese Migration to the Western Hemisphere; 14. Unequal Transpacific Capital Transfers; 15. Ganbateando; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613664778

9781280687839

1280687835

9780803240889

0803240880

OCLC:

795120086