Luis-Brown / Pease Waves of Decolonization

Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9146-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

Explores why author-activists in the United States, Cuba, and Mexico defined their local struggles in relation to broader hemispheric and diasporic movements against imperialism and racial oppression.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luis-Brown, David

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction. Waves of Decolonization and Discourses of Hemispheric Citizenship 1

1. "White Slaves" and the "Arrogant Mestiza": Reconfiguring Whiteness in The Squatter and the Don and Ramona 35

2. "The Coming Unities" in "Our America": Decolonization and Anticolonial Messianism in Martí, De Bois, and the Santa de Cabora 67

3. Transnationalisms against the State: Contesting Neocolonialism in the Harlem Renaissance, Cuban Negrismo, and Mexican Indigenismo 147

4. "Rising Tides of Color": Ethnography and Theories of Race and Migration in Boas, Park, Gamio, and Hurston 202

Coda. Waves of Decolonization and Discourses of Hemispheric Citizenship 241

Notes 245

References 301

Index 329

Über Autor(innen)

David Luis-Brown is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English at Claremont Graduate University.