“Transoceanic Flows: Pacific Islander Interventions across the American Empire”

Amerasia Journal 38:1 — “Transoceanic Flows:  Pacific Islander Interventions across the American Empire”

The first extended treatment devoted to Pacific Islander Studies in Amerasia Journal, “Transoceanic Flows:  Pacific Islander Interventions across the American Empire” addresses the geographical expanse and methodological diversity that characterize this field.  UCLA Professor Keith L. Camacho guest edits this special issue of Amerasia Journal based on a 2009 symposium he organized entitled “Unlearning the American Pacific.”  “Transoceanic Flows” surveys the broad geographies and demographies of the Pacific Islands, including the peoples and places of Guam, Hawai‘i, New Zealand, Sāmoa, and beyond.  Covering a broad range of topics from football and Pacific Islander masculinities to an anthropological account of African American perspectives on race in Hawai‘i, there is methodological diversity and intellectual rigor and vigor reflected in memoir, poetry, visual art, and cross-genre creative work situated within cultural studies, critical theory, and anthropology.

“Transoceanic Flows” includes:

* Critical essays and new research from leading and emerging scholars in the field, such as Christine DeLisle, Vicente Diaz, John Eperjesi, Michelle Erai, Nitasha Sharma, and Nicole Starosielski.

* Creative writing by renowned Samoan artist Dan Taulapapa McMullin and award-winning poets Craig Santos Perez and ku‘ualoha ho‘omanwanui.

* Dialogues on the role of Pacific Islander Studies in undergraduate and graduate curricula, including contributions from the coordinators of the UCLA Hawai‘i Travel Study Program and students involved in the UCLA’s Graduate Coalition of the Native Pacific.

* Reviews of notable new books in Pacific Islander Studies

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center will be celebrating the launch of “Transoceanic Flows” and education initiatives in Pacific Islander Studies in conjunction with the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (PIEAM) in Long Beach, California, on Saturday, February 25, 2012.  For information on the event, please visit: http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/archives/techpacific.asp.

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