Rona Tamiko Halualani is Associate professor in Departmentof Communication Studies at San Jose State University. She is theauthor of In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities andCultural Politics (U Minn 2002) and publishes widely on issuesof intercultural contact, race relations, and diversity. In 2005,Dr. Halualani was selected as a 2005-06 Carnegie Scholar by theprestigious Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching(located at Stanford University). Thomas K. Nakayamais currently professor in the HughDowns School of Human Communication and founding director of AsianPacific American Studies at Arizona State University. He is theauthor of numerous books and is currently the editor of the Journalof International and Intercultural Communication. He is a fellow ofthe International Academy of Intercultural Research, a formerFulbrighter at the Universite de Mons-Hainaut in Belgium,Libra Professor at the University of Maine, and he served on theBoard of Directors of the Arizona Humanities Council.