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Imagining our Americas : toward a transnational frame / edited by Sandhya Shukla and Heidi Tinsman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Radical perspectives.
- Radical perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiculturalism--America.
- Multiculturalism.
- Transnationalism--Social aspects--America.
- Transnationalism.
- Globalization--Social aspects--America.
- Globalization.
- Cross-cultural studies.
- America--Civilization.
- America.
- America--Race relations.
- America--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (426 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Challenges the disciplinary boundaries and the assumptions underlying the fields of Latin American Studies and American/U.S. Studies, demonstrating that the "Americas" is a concept that transcends geographical place.
- Contents:
- Introduction : across the Americas / Heidi Tinsman and Sandhya Shukla
- Up from empire : James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South
- Harilaos Stecopoulos
- Bastards of the unfinished revolution : Bolivar's Ismael and Rizal's Marti at the end of the nineteenth century / John D. Blanco
- Confederate Cuba / Caroline Levander
- Pleasure and colonial resistance : translating the politics of pidgin in Milton Murayama's All I asking for is my body / Susan Y. Najita
- Experimental dreams, ethical nightmares : leprosy, isolation, and human experimentation in nineteenth-century Hawaii / Nicholas Turse
- Tracking the "China peril" along the U.S. Pacific rim : carpetbaggers, yacht people, 1.2 billion cyborg consumers, and the bamboo gang, coming soon to a neighborhood near you! / Rob Wilson
- Uprooted bodies : indigenous subjects and colonial discourses in Atlantic American studies / Michelle Stephens
- Blackness goes South : race and mestizaje in our America / Rachel Adams
- Queer harvests : homosexuality, the U.S. new left, and the Venceremos brigades to Cuba / Ian Lekus
- Dislocations of cold war cultures : exile, transnationalism, and the politics of form / Rebecca M. Schreiber
- The attributes of sovereignty : the cold war, colonialism, and community education in Puerto Rico / Alyosha Goldstein
- All Cumbias, the Cumbia : the Latin Americanization of a tropical genre / Hector Fernandez l'Hoeste
- "Panama money" : reading the transition to U.S. imperialism / Victor Bascara.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923319
- 9781282923317
- 1282923315
- 9780822389958
- 0822389959
- OCLC:
- 648575686
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