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This rich interdisciplinary collection of essays advocates and models a hemispheric approach to the study of the Americas. Taken together, the essays examine North and South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as a broad region transcending both national boundaries and the dichotomy between Nort...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Adams, Rachel (Contribuidor), Bascara, Victor (Contribuidor), Blanco, John (Contribuidor), Goldstein, Alyosha (Contribuidor), Lekus, Ian (Contribuidor), Levander, Caroline (Contribuidor), L'Hoeste, Héctor (Contribuidor), Najita, Susan (Contribuidor), Schreiber, Rebecca (Contribuidor), Shukla, Sandhya (Editor ), Stephens, Michelle (Contribuidor), Tinsman, Heidi (Editor ), Turse, Nicholas (Contribuidor), Wilson, Rob (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2007]
Colección:Radical Perspectives : 20
Temas:
Cross-cultural studies.
Globalization > Social aspects > America.
Multiculturalism > America.
Transnationalism > Social aspects > America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • About the Series
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Across the Americas Heidi Tinsman and Sandhya Shukla
  • Up from Empire: JamesWeldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South Harilaos Stecopoulos
  • Bastards of the Unfinished Revolution: Bolívar's Ismael and Rizal's Martí at the End of the Nineteenth Century
  • Confederate Cuba
  • Pleasure and Colonial Resistance: Translating the Politics of Pidgin in Milton Murayama's All I Asking for Is My Body
  • Experimental Dreams, Ethical Nightmares: Leprosy, Isolation, and Human Experimentation in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii
  • 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!
  • Uprooted Bodies: Indigenous Subjects and Colonial Discourses in Atlantic American Studies
  • Blackness Goes South: Race and Mestizaje in Our America
  • Queer Harvests: Homosexuality, the U.S. New Left, and the Venceremos Brigades to Cuba
  • Dislocations of Cold War Cultures: Exile, Transnationalism, and the Politics of Form
  • The Attributes of Sovereignty: The Cold War, Colonialism, and Community Education in Puerto Rico
  • All Cumbias, the Cumbia: The Latin Americanization of a Tropical Genre
  • ''Panama Money'': Reading the Transition to U.S. Imperialism
  • Contributors
  • Index

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