Teaching and Studying the Americas

Cultural Influences from Colonialism to the Present
2010. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-61512-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

This book considers how interdisciplinary conversation, critique, and collaboration enrich and transform humanities and social science education for those teaching and studying traditional Americanist fields.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pinn, A.

Levander, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; A.Byrd, M.Emerson, C.Levander  & A.B.Pinn PART I: LOCATING AND DISLOCATING THE AMERICAS Good Neighbor/Bad Neighbor: Boltonian Americanism and Hemispheric Studies; A.Barrenechea Bad Neighbor/Good Neighbor: Across the Disciplines Toward a Hemispheric Studies;  C.Levander Coloniality at Large: The Western Hemisphere and the Colonial Horizon of Modernity; W.Mignolo PART II: DISCIPLINING HEMISPHERIC STUDIES A Major Motion Picture: Studying and Teaching the Americas; M.O.Emerson Embodied Meaning: The 'Look' and 'Location' of Religion in the American Hemisphere; A.B.Pinn Primeval Whiteness: White Supremacies, (Latin) American History, and the Transamerican Challenge to Critical Race Studies; R.Hill The Making of 'Americans': Old Boundaries, New Realities; K.Manges Douglas  & R.Saenz Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the History of the Western Hemisphere; M.López-Alonso PART III: PROGRAMS AND PEDAGOGY Beyond National Borders: Researching and Teaching Jovita González; H.Miner  & R.Sager Migrant Archives: New Routes In and Out of American Studies; R.Lazo Partnering Across the Americas: Crossing National and Disciplinary Borders in Archival Development; M.Bailar Ghosts of the American Century: The Intellectual, Programmatic and Institutional Challenges for Transnational/Hemispheric American Studies; M.Guterl  & D.Cohn

Über Autor(innen)

ANTHONY B. PINN Agnes Arnold Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Religion, and Director of Graduate Studies in Religion at Rice University, USA.  
CAROLINE F. LEVANDERProfessor of English and Director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University, USA.  
MICHAEL O. EMERSONAllyn and Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Race, Religion, and Urban Life at Rice University, USA.