This is the last issue of American Quarterly whose content was reviewed and selected by the Hawai‘i-based editorial team. We began our editorial work believing that our location in the Pacific gives us a particular vantage point from which to advance scholarship that interrogates and reframes “America” in its myriad manifestations. The issues we have put out in the past decade indeed reflect our visions and aspirations. We have been inspired by the uncompromising critique of America and the commitment to social justice, solidarity, and care that are evident in the works we have been fortunate to review and edit during the past decade.

It is extremely fitting to end our editorship by showcasing the five essays included in this issue. There could not be better examples of the kinds of interdisciplinary, intersectional, transnational scholarship that our editorial team had envisioned. All of these essays have undergone multiple rounds of revision based on the peer reviewers’ and the board members’ feedback, which the authors graciously and patiently incorporated, sometimes by conducting substantial new research. The essays are thus products of the authors’ scholarly commitment and of collaboration and mentoring at its best.