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Waves of decolonization : discourses of race and hemispheric citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States / David Luis-Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luis-Brown, David, 1967-
- Series:
- New Americanists.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- New Americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--Cuba--History.
- Racism.
- Racism--Mexico--History.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Decolonization--Cuba--History.
- Decolonization.
- Decolonization--Mexico--History.
- Decolonization--United States--History.
- Cuba--Race relations--History.
- Cuba.
- Mexico--Race relations--History.
- Mexico.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores why author-activists in the United States, Cuba, and Mexico defined their local struggles in relation to broader hemispheric and diasporic movements against imperialism and racial oppression.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Waves of decolonization and discourses of hemispheric citizenship
- "White slaves" and the "arrogant mestiza": reconfiguring whiteness in The squatter and the don and Ramona
- "The coming unities" in "our America": decolonization and anticolonial messianism in Marti, Du Bois, and the Santa de Cabora
- Transnationalisms against the state: contesting neocolonialism in the Harlem Renaissance, Cuban negrismo, and Mexican indigenismo
- "Rising tides of color": ethnography and theories of race and migration in Boas, Park, Gamio, and Hurston
- Coda: Waves of decolonization and discourses of hemispheric citizenship.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065124
- 9781283065122
- 1283065126
- 9780822391463
- 0822391465
- OCLC:
- 308708277
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