Shukla / Tinsman Imagining Our Americas

Toward a Transnational Frame
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8995-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

Reihe: Radical Perspectives

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shukla, Sandhya

Tinsman, Heidi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Across the Americas / Heidi Tinsman and Sandhya Shukla 1

Up from Empire: James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South / Harilaos Stecopoulos 34

Bastards of the Unfinished Revolution: Bolivar’s Ismael and Rizal’s Marti at the End of the Nineteenth Century / John D. Blanco 63

Confederate Cuba / Caroline Levander 88

Pleasure and Colonial Resistance: Translating the Politics of Pidgin in Milton Murayama’s All I Asking for Is My Body / Susan Y. Najita 111

Experimental Dreams, Ethical Nightmares: Leprosy, Isolation, and Human Experimentation in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii / Nicholas Turse 138

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 168

Uprooted Bodies: Indigenous Subjects and Colonial Discourses in Atlantic American Studies / Michelle Stephens 190

Blackness Goes South: Race and Mestizaje in Our America / Rachel Adams 214

Queer Harvests: Homosexuality,the U.S. New Left, and the Venceremos Brigades to Cuba / Ian Lekus 249

Dislocations of Cold War Cultures: Exile, Transnationalism, and the Politics of Form / Rebecca M. Schreiber 282

The Attributes of Sovereignty: The Cold War, Colonialism, and Community Education in Puerto Rico / Alyosha Goldstein 313

All Cumbias, the Cumbia: The Latin Americanization of a Tropical Genre / Hector Fernandez L’Hoeste 338

“Panama Money”: Reading the Transition to U.S. Imperialism / Victor Bascara 365

Contributors 387

Index 391

Über Autor(innen)

Sandhya Shukla is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England.Heidi Tinsman is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973, also published by Duke University Press.