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Borderland on the isthmus : race, culture, and the struggle for the canal zone / Michael E. Donoghue.
LIBRA F1569.C2 D66 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donoghue, Michael E.
- Series:
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Panama Canal (Panama)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Panama Canal (Panama).
- Panama Canal (Panama)--Race relations--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- The construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this lively and provocative social history, Michael E. Donoghue positions the Panama Canal Zone as an imperial borderland where U.S. power, culture, and ideology were projected and contested. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, Donoghue details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Panamanians responded to U.S. occupation with proclamations, protests, and everyday forms of resistance and acquiescence. Although U.S. "Zonians" and military personnel stigmatized Panamanians as racial inferiors, they also sought them out for service labor, contraband, sexual pleasure, and marriage. The Canal Zone, he concludes, reproduced classic colonial hierarchies of race, national identity, and gender, establishing a model for other U.S. bases and imperial outposts around the globe. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Borderland on the Isthmus: the changing boundaries and frontiers of the Panama Canal Zone
- Race and identity in the Zone-Panama borderland: Zonians Uber Alles
- Race and identity in the zone-Panama borderland: West Indians contra todos
- Desire, sexuality, and gender in the Zone-Panama borderland
- The U.S. Military: armed guardians of the borderland
- "Injuring the power system": crime and resistance in the borderland
- The Zone-Panama borderland and the complexity of U.S. Empire.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822356660
- 082235666X
- 9780822356783
- 0822356783
- OCLC:
- 860943915
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