Asian-American Studies for the 21st Century

Evelyn Hu-Dehart

Evelyn Hu-Dehart, professor of history, Brown University. The original "illegal aliens," Chinese who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.  The establishment of the first American Chinatown in Manila. Comparative labor history of African slaves and Chinese coolies on the Cuban sugar plantation. Though these projects, Hu-Dehart demonstrates the intersection and cross-fertilization among the fields of Asian studies, Latin American/Caribbean studies, Asian-American studies, Africana studies and comparative race and ethnic studies as well as the transformation of Asian-American studies since the 1960s from parochial U.S.-centered to hemispheric, trans-border, trans-Pacific and comparative.