Imagining our Americas
Subtitle: toward a transnational frame
By: edited by Sandhya Shukla and Heidi Tinsman.
Contributors: Shukla, Sandhya Rajendra.; Tinsman, Heidi, 1964-
Series: Radical perspectives
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822339502; 9780822339618
Subjects: Multiculturalism -- America; Transnationalism -- Social aspects -- America; Globalization -- Social aspects -- America; Cross-cultural studies; America -- Civilization; America -- Race relations; America -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : across the Americas / Heidi Tinsman and Sandhya Shukla; title: Up from empire : James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South; title: Harilaos Stecopoulos; title: Bastards of the unfinished revolution : Bolivar's Ismael and Rizal's Martí at the end of the nineteenth century / John D. Blanco; title: Confederate Cuba / Caroline Levander; title: Pleasure and colonial resistance : translating the politics of pidgin in Milton; title: Murayama's All I asking for is my body / Susan Y. Najita; title: Experimental dreams, ethical nightmares : leprosy, isolation, and human experimentation in nineteenth-century Hawaii / Nicholas Turse; title: 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; title: Uprooted bodies : indigenous subjects and colonial discourses in Atlantic American studies / Michelle Stephens; title: Blackness goes South : race and mestizaje in our America / Rachel Adams; title: Queer harvests : homosexuality, the U.S. new left, and the Venceremos brigades to Cuba / Ian Lekus; title: Dislocations of cold war cultures : exile, transnationalism, and the politics of form / Rebecca M. Schreiber; title: The attributes of sovereignty : the cold war, colonialism, and community education in Puerto Rico / Alyosha Goldstein; title: All Cumbias, the Cumbia : the Latin Americanization of a tropical genre / Hector Fernandez l'Hoeste; title: "Panama money" : reading the transition to U.S. imperialism / Victor Bascara.