Books in the Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives series

An examination of the strategies used by outsiders to usurp Hawaiian lands and undermine indigenous Hawaiian culture. Drawing upon historical and contemporary examples, it investigates Captain Cook's journals, Hollywood films and commercialized hula, to show how they displace native culture.

Caught betwixt the Asian continent and the hegemonic power of the United States, the Philippines occupies a contested space or borderland between past and present, East and West. Balancing the memory of colonial experience with an emergent nation-making dream, this innovative book asks if a meaningful future can be envisioned.

An oral history of the Japanese American saga. It details the lives of first- and second-generation Japanese Americans before World War II with images drawn from interviews, songs, novels and newspaper articles. The heart of the story is the tragedy that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Examines the complex role of Chinese American scientists and engineers in their ever-growing role in Silicon Valley. They learn how to utilize new social networks and make sense of a changed ethnic identity. This book presents important knowledge on the connection of Chinese ethnicity to high-skilled labor and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley.

This work includes ideas and perspectives for those seeking deeper understanding of the concepts and historical, political, economic, and social force that constitute the "Pacific Rim".

Chinese immigrants played a dynamic role in frontier America, yet scholars of Asian America have focused for the most part only on the Pacific Coast, especially California. This reader fills that gap by collecting memoirs, documents, and historical analyses from the other Western states¿from the Cascades to the Great Plains¿to provide a comprehensive overview of the Chinese in nineteenth-century America.

A set of essays and interviews on the emergent literatures of the new Pacific. There are position papers, polemics and decolonizing critiques, which seek to expose the maze and mix of literatures and cultural identities breaking down and building up across the Pacific Ocean.

People of Asian descent have lived for centuries in North and South America, where they have been involved in the creation of multicultural, multiethnic societies. This anthology explores their experiences among ethnic and cultural groups in a works by and about Asian Americans.