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Book Reviews: Wayfinding through the Storm: Speaking Truth to Power at Kamehameha Schools, 1993-1999 by Gavan Daws and Nä Leo o Kamehameha ; Creating the Nisei Market: Race & Citizenship in Hawaiÿi's Japanese American Consumer Culture by Shiho Imai ; The US Military in Hawaiÿi: Colonialism, Memory and Resistance by Brian E. Ireland ; The Arts of Kingship: Hawaiian Art and National Culture of the Kaläkaua Era by Stacy L. Kamehiro ; Talking Hawaiÿi's Story: Oral Histories of an Island People edited by Michi Kodama-Nishimomo, Warren S. Nishimoto, and Cynthia A. Oshiro ; Facing Future by Dan Kois ; Missionaries in Hawaiÿi: The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797-1883 by Clifford Putney ; The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick ; Haoles in Hawaiÿi by Judy Rohrer ; The Purposes of Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawaiÿi by Christine Skwiot

Foreword / Cynthia Enloe -- Introduction: Militarized Currents, Decolonizing Futures / Setsu Shigematsu and Keith L. Camacho -- Militarized Bodies of Memory -- Memorializing Puʻuloa and Remembering Pearl Harbor / Jon Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio -- Bikinis and Other S/pacific N/oceans / Teresia K. Teaiwa -- The Exceptional Life and Death of a Chamorro Soldier: Tracing the Militarization of Desire in Guam, [overstrike] USA / Michael Lujan Bevacqua -- Touring Military Masculinities: U.S.-Philippines Circuits of Sacrifice and Gratitude in Corregidor and Bataan / Vemadetle Vicuna Gonzalez -- II. Militarized Movements -- Rising Up from a Sea of Discontent: The 1970 Koza Uprising in U.S.-Occupied Okinawa / Wesley Iwao Ueunten -- South Korean Movements against Militarized Sexual Labor / Katharine H.S. Moon -- Uncomfortable Fatigues: Chamorro Soldiers, Gendered Identities, and the Question of Decolonization in Guam / Keith L. Camacho and Laurel A. Monnig -- Militarized Filipino Masculinity and the Language of Citizenship in San Diego / Theresa Cenidoza Suarez -- Hetero/Homo-sexualized Militaries -- On Romantic Love and Military Violence: Transpacific Imperialism and US.-Japan Complicity / Naoki Sakai -- Masculinity and Male-on-Male Sexual Violence in the Military: Focusing on the Absence of the Issue / Insook Kwon -- Why have the Japanese Self-Defense Forces Included Women? The State's "Nonfeminist Reasons" / Fumika Sato -- Genealogies of Unbelonging: Amerasians and Transnational Adoptees as Legacies of US. Militarism in South Korea / Patti Duncan -- Conclusion: From American Lake to a People's Pacific in the Twenty-First Century / Walden Bello

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sounds Authentic? -- One Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity, and the Asian American MC -- Two Silenced but Not Silent: Asian Americans and Jazz -- 2. Popular Places -- Three. Homicidal Tendencies: Violence and the Global Economy in Asian American Pulp Fiction -- Four Visual Reconnaissance -- Five Chinese Restaurant Drive-Thru -- Six The Guru and the Cultural Politics of Placelessness -- 3. Consuming Cultures -- Seven Cooking up the Senses: A Critical Embodied Approach to the Study of Food and Asian American Television Audiences -- Eight Performing Culture in Diaspora: Assimilation and Hybridity in Paris by Night Videos and Vietnamese American Niche Media -- Nine Indo-Chic: Late Capitalist Orientalism and Imperial Culture -- 4. Troubled Technologies -- Ten Asian American Auto/Biographies: The Gendered Limits of Consumer Citizenship in Import Subcultures -- Eleven Bruce Lee I Love You: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Queer Superstardom of JJ Chinois -- Twelve Race and Software -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index