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Self and history

This personal essay examines the author's personal and intellectual trajectory from his experiences growing up in a plantation in Hawai`i to his academic engagement with African and Asian American history. Constructing the essay around the polarities and unions of space and time, he explores the way the self and the scholar, multiply constituted by race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and nation, was and is a work in progress.