Pacific Diaspora: Island Peoples in the United States and Across the Pacific

by Paul Spickard

Book Overview

Pacific 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 U.S.) have received far less attention. The contributors to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824826191
• ISBN13: 9780824826192
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"