Kent A. Onois Professor of Asian American Studies and Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is author ofContemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past(2009) and co-author ofAsian Americans and the Mediawith Vincent Pham (2009) andShifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187with John Martin Sloop (2002).