Pacific Diaspora - 9780824826192

Pacific DiasporaIsland Peoples in the United States and Across the Pacific\nAuthor(s): Paul R. Spickard, Joanne L. Rondilla, Debbie Hippolite Wright\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States\nImprint: University of Hawai'i Press\nISBN-13: 9780824826192, 978-0824826192\nSynopsis\nPacific Islander Americans constitute one of the United States' least understood ethnic groups. As expected, stereotypes abound: Samoans 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 [url] 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 [ur.