Waves of decolonization
Subtitle: discourses of race and hemispheric citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States
By: David Luis-Brown.
Series: New Americanists
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780822343653; 9780822343660
Subjects: Racism -- Cuba -- History; Racism -- Mexico -- History; Racism -- United States -- History; Decolonization -- Cuba -- History; Decolonization -- Mexico -- History; Decolonization -- United States -- History; Cuba -- Race relations -- History; Mexico -- Race relations -- History; United States -- Race relations -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "White slaves" and the "arrogant mestiza": reconfiguring whiteness in The squatter and The don and ramona; title: "The coming unities" in "Our America": decolonization and anticolonial messianism in Martí, Du Bois, and the Santa de Cabora; title: Transnationalisms against the state: contesting neocolonialism in the Harlem renaissance, Cuban negrismo, and Mexican indigenismo; title: "Rising tides of color": ethnography and theories of race and migration in Boas, Park, Gamio, and Hurston; title: Coda. waves of decolonization and discourses of hemispheric citizenship.