Special Feature Section: AALA 10th Anniversary Forum―Interracial Encounters
〈Program & Poster〉
〈Opening Speech〉 UEKI Teruyo (President of AALA)
〈Keynote Lecture〉 Interracial Dynamics in Asian American and African American Fiction (King-Kok Cheung)
Response to Prof. Cheung’s Keynote Lecture
・MURAYAMA Mizuho
・NAGAHATA Akitoshi
〈US-Japan Forum: Past, Present & Future of Asian American Studies〉
Creating Performative Asian American Communities through Text, Time, and Space: An Essay and Dramatic Script (Russell C. Leong)
Past, Present and Future of Asian American Studies (UEKI Teruyo)

Articles
・Hawaiian Walden?: Memorialization in Garrett Hongo’s Volcano (A.Robert Lee)
・The Global/Local Past Encounters the Local/Global Future: The Japanese Local Literature in Hawaii (USUI Masami)
・The Embedded Messages in James T. Hamada’s Don’t Give Up the Ship, the First Japanese American Novel in English (MONOBE Hiromi)
・Towards a “Frameless” Space: Cathy Song’s Poetic Windows in Picture
Bride and Frameless Windows, Squares of Light (KASE Yasuko)

Research Notes
The Burden of Reading Dictee in Japan (Daniel O’Neill)

AALA Library: Publications of AALA Members
Report on AALA’s Activities from 1998 to 2000
AALA Information
Editor’s Note