Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame by Sandhya Shukla,Heidi Tinsman PDF

By Sandhya Shukla,Heidi Tinsman

ISBN-10: 0822339501

ISBN-13: 9780822339502

ISBN-10: 0822339617

ISBN-13: 9780822339618

This wealthy interdisciplinary choice of essays advocates and types a hemispheric method of the examine of the Americas. Taken jointly, the essays learn North and South the United States, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as a large quarter transcending either nationwide limitations and the dichotomy among North and South. within the volume’s enormous creation, the editors, an anthropologist and a historian, clarify the necessity to circulate past the paradigm of U.S. American reviews and Latin American reports as specified fields. They indicate the chilly battle origins of sector reports, they usually be aware what percentage of the Americas’ most vital social formations have spanned borders if no longer continents: different and complicated indigenous societies, eu conquest and colonization, African slavery, Enlightenment-based independence pursuits, mass immigrations, and neoliberal economies.

Scholars of literature, ethnic stories, and local experiences in addition to of anthropology and historical past, the members specialize in the Americas as a commonly conceived geographic, political, and cultural formation. one of the essays are explorations of the numerous histories of African american citizens’ presence in Mexican and Chicano groups, the several racial and sophistication meanings that the Colombian musical style cumbia assumes because it is absorbed throughout nationwide borders, and the contrasting visions of anticolonial fight embodied within the writings of 2 literary giants and nationwide heroes: José Martí of Cuba and José Rizal of the Philippines. One contributor indicates how a pidgin-language mix of jap, Hawaiian, and English allowed second-generation eastern immigrants to critique Hawaii’s plantation exertions procedure in addition to eastern hierarchies of gender, iteration, and race. one other examines the afflicted background of U.S. homosexual and lesbian harmony with the Cuban Revolution. construction on and relocating past prior scholarship, this assortment illuminates the efficient highbrow and political strains of inquiry opened by means of a spotlight at the Americas.

Contributors. Rachel Adams, Victor Bascara, John D. Blanco, Alyosha Goldstein, Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Ian Lekus, Caroline F. Levander, Susan Y. Najita, Rebecca Schreiber, Sandhya Shukla, Harilaos Stecopoulos, Michelle Stephens, Heidi Tinsman, Nick Turse, Rob Wilson

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