Pacific diaspora
Subtitle: island peoples in the United States and across the Pacific
By: edited by Paul Spickard, Joanne L. Rondilla, and Debbie Hippolite Wright.
Contributors: Spickard, Paul R., 1950-; Rondilla, Joanne L.; Hippolite Wright, Debbie.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Pacific Islander Americans.; Islands of the Pacific -- Emigration and immigration.; Nationalism -- Hawaii.; Nationalism -- New Zealand.; Hawaii -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-376) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Pacific Diaspora? 1; title: Paul Spickard; title: Part One Identity; title: Tupou Hopoate Pau'u; title: "My Life in Four Cultures" 31; title: Paul Spickard; title: "Pacific Islander Americans and Multiethnicity:; title: A Vision of America's Future?" 40; title: Joanne L. Rondilla; title: "The Filipino Question in Asia and the Pacific:; title: Rethinking Regional Origins in Diaspora" 56; title: Part Two : Leaving the Islands; title: John Connell; title: "Paradise Left? : Pacific Island Voyagers in the; title: Modern World" 69; title: A. Ravuvu; title: "Security and Confidence as Basic Factors in Pacific; title: Islanders' Migration" 87; title: Wendy E. Cowling; title: "Motivationsfor Contemporary Tongan Migration" 99; title: Craig R. Janes; title: "From Village to City: Samoan Migration to California" 118; title: Part Three : Cultural Transformations; title: Helen Morton; title: "Creating Their Own Culture: Diasporic Tongans" 135; title: Melani Anae; title: "Papalagi Redefined: Toward a New Zealand-Born; title: Samoan Identity" 150; title: Vicente M. Diaz; title: "'Fight Boys, 'til the Last': Islandstyle Football and; title: the Remasculinization of Indigeneity in the Militarized; title: American Pacific Islands" 169; title: George H. S. Kanahele; title: "The Dynamics of Aloha" 195; title: 'Inoke F Funaki and Lupe M. Funaki; title: "A Compromise Identity: Tongan Americans in; title: the United States" 211; title: Part Four : Gender and Sexuality; title: Karina Kahananui Green; title: "Colonialism's Daughters: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-; title: Century Western Perceptions of Hawaiian Women" 221; title: Haunani-Kay Trask; title: "Pacific Island Women and White Feminism" 253; title: Carolina E. Robertson; title: "The Maha ofHawai'i" 262; title: Part Five : Social Problems and Responses; title: Diana Fitisemanu, Karina Kahananui Green,; title: David Hall, Debbie Hippolite Wright, Brucetta; title: McKenzie, Dorri Nautu, and Paul Spickard; title: "Family Dynamics among Pacific Islander Americans" 269; title: Kekuni Blaisdell; title: "Historical and Cultural Aspects of Native Hawaiian; title: Health" 279; title: E. Victoria Shook; title: "An Introduction to the Practice of Ho'oponopono" 286; title: Debbie Hippolite Wright, Ngati-Koata, Ngati-Kuia,; title: Raukawa, and Te Ati-Awa; title: "Pacific Islander Modesfor Dealing with Sexual Abuse" 295; title: Part Six : Hawaiian Nationalism; title: Michael Kioni Dudley and Keoni Kealoha Agard; title: "A History of Dispossession" 309; title: Jay Hartwell; title: "Ho'omana" 322; title: Davianna Pomoaika'i McGregor; title: "Recognizing Native Hawaiians: A Questfor; title: Sovereignty" 331.