Pacific Diaspora: Island Peoples in the United States and Across the Pacific / Edition 1

by Paul Spickard, Joanne L. Rondilla, Debbie Hippolite Wright

Overview

Pacific Islander Americans constitute one of the United States' least understood ethnic groups. As expected, stereotypes abound: Sāmoans are good at football; Hawaiians make the best surfers; all Tahitians dance. Although Pacific history, society, and culture have been the subjects of much scholarly research and writing, the lives of Pacific Islanders in the diaspora (particularly in the U.S.) have received far less attention. The contributors to this volume of articles and essays compiled by the Pacific Islander Americans Research Project hope to rectify this oversight.

Pacific Diaspora brings together the individual and community histories of Pacific Island peoples in the U.S. It is designed for use in Pacific and ethnic studies courses, but it will also find an audience among those with a general interest in Pacific Islander Americans.

Contributors: Keoni Kealoha Agard, Melani Anae, Kekuni Blaisdell, John Connell, Wendy Cowling, Vincente M. Diaz, Michael Kioni Dudley, Dianna Fitisemanu, Inoke Funaki, Lupe Funaki, Karina Kahananui Green, David Hall, Jay Hartwell, Craig R. Janes, George H. S. Kanahele, Davianna Pomoaikai McGregor, Brucetta McKenzie, Helen Morton, Dorri Nautu, Tupou Hopoate Pauu, A. Ravuvu, Carol E. Robertson, Joanne Rondilla, E. Victoria Shook, Paul Spickard, Haunani-Kay Trask, Debbie Hippolite Wright.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824826192
Publisher:	University of Hawaii Press, The
Publication date:	08/31/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction: Pacific Diaspora?	1
Part 1	Identity
	"My Life in Four Cultures"	31
	"Pacific Islander Americans and Multiethnicity: A Vision of America's Future?"	40
	"The Filipino Question in Asia and the Pacific: Rethinking Regional Origins in Diaspora"	56
Part 2	Leaving the Islands
	"Paradise Left?: Pacific Island Voyagers in the Modern World"	69
	"Security and Confidence as Basic Factors in Pacific Islanders' Migration"	87
	"Motivations for Contemporary Tongan Migration"	99
	"From Village to City: Samoan Migration to California"	118
Part 3	Cultural Transformations
	"Creating Their Own Culture: Diasporic Tongans"	135
	"Papalagi Redefined: Toward a New Zealand-Born Samoan Identity"	150
	"'Fight Boys, 'til the Last...': Islandstyle Football and the Remasculinization of Indigeneity in the Militarized American Pacific Islands"	169
	"The Dynamics of Aloha"	195
	"A Compromise Identity: Tongan Americans in the United States"	211
Part 4	Gender and Sexuality
	"Colonialism's Daughters: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Western Perceptions of Hawaiian Women"	221
	"Pacific Island Women and White Feminism"	253
	"The Mahu of Hawai'i"	262
Part 5	Social Problems and Responses
	"Family Dynamics among Pacific Islander Americans"	269
	"Historical and Cultural Aspects of Native Hawaiian Health"	279
	"An Introduction to the Practice of Ho'oponopono"	286
	"Pacific Islander Modes for Dealing with Sexual Abuse"	295
Part 6	Hawaiian Nationalism
	"A History of Dispossession"	309
	"Ho'omana"	322
	"Recognizing Native Hawaiians: A Quest for Sovereignty"	331
	Bibliography	355
	Contributors	377
	Index	381