If Asian Americans are to assume the role of bridge builders across
the Pacific, what are the opportunities, the risks, the promises,
and the perils? The answer to this question comes in eight
groundbreaking essays in which contributors to Across the Pacific
address issues of contemporary growth and diversification of Asian
America in relation to the increasingly globalized economy. New
meanings and practices of Asian Americans are considered in the
atmosphere of global transformation that is present in the
post-Civil Rights, post-Cold War, postmodern, and postcolonial era.
This book explores, in descriptive and critical ways, how
transnational relationships and interactions in Asian American
communities are manifested, exemplified, and articulated within the
international context of the Pacific Rim.
Members of the Asian American community have always been
trans-Pacific, but are now more than ever, since the 1965 change in
U.S. immigration law. Entering the U.S. at the culmination of the
Civil Rights movement, Asians becoming Asian Americans have joined
a self-consciously multicultural society. Asian economies roared
onto the world stage, creating new markets while circulating
capital and labor at an unprecedented scale and intensity, thereby
helping drive the forces of modern globalization. These essays by
well-known scholars in the field of Asian American studies consider
such topics as the impact of new migrations on Asian American
subjectivity and politics, Asian American activism and U.S. foreign
policy, and the role of Asian Americans in Pacific Rim
economies.
Considering issues of diaspora, transmigrancy, assimilation,
institutionalized racism, and community, Across thePacific covers
such cutting-edge subjects as the cultural expressions of
dislocation among contemporary Asian American writers, as well as
the impact of the new migrations on Asian American subjectivity and
politics.
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