Kent A. Ono is Professor in the Asian American Studies Program and in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In addition to co-authoring Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187 with John M. Sloop (2002) and Asian Americans and the Media with Vincent Pham (2008), he has co-edited Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek (1996) and edited Asian American Studies after Critical Mass (2005) and A Companion to Asian American Studies (2005).