Transnational crossroads : remapping the Americas and the Pacific / edited by Camilla Fojas and Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr.
Material type: TextSeries: Borderlands and transcultural studiesPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780803240889
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- United States -- Ethnic relations -- History
- Asia -- Relations -- United States -- History
- United States -- Relations -- Asia -- History
- Latin America -- Relations -- United States -- History
- United States -- Relations -- Latin America -- History
- Islands of the Pacific -- Relations -- United States -- History
- United States -- Relations -- Islands of the Pacific
- États-Unis -- Relations interethniques -- Histoire
- Asie -- Relations -- États-Unis
- Pacifique, Îles du -- Relations -- États-Unis
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies
- Ethnic relations
- International relations
- Asia
- Latin America
- Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific
- United States
- 308.800973 23
- E184.A1 T693 2012eb
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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
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.
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