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Informationen zum Autor Sandhya Shukla is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England.Heidi Tinsman is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973, also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Challenges the disciplinary boundaries and the assumptions underlying the fields of Latin American Studies and American/U.S. Studies, demonstrating that the "Americas" is a concept that transcends geographical place. Zusammenfassung Challenges the disciplinary boundaries and the assumptions underlying the fields of Latin American Studies and American/U.S. Studies! demonstrating that the "Americas" is a concept that transcends geographical place. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Across the Americas / Heidi Tinsman and Sandhya Shukla 1 Up from Empire: James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South / Harilaos Stecopoulos 34 Bastards of the Unfinished Revolution: Bolivar’s Ismael and Rizal’s Marti at the End of the Nineteenth Century / John D. Blanco 63 Confederate Cuba / Caroline Levander 88 Pleasure and Colonial Resistance: Translating the Politics of Pidgin in Milton Murayama’s All I Asking for Is My Body / Susan Y. Najita 111 Experimental Dreams, Ethical Nightmares: Leprosy, Isolation, and Human Experimentation in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii / Nicholas Turse 138 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 168 Uprooted Bodies: Indigenous Subjects and Colonial Discourses in Atlantic American Studies / Michelle Stephens 190 Blackness Goes South: Race and Mestizaje in Our America / Rachel Adams 214 Queer Harvests: Homosexuality,the U.S. New Left, and the Venceremos Brigades to Cuba / Ian Lekus 249 Dislocations of Cold War Cultures: Exile, Transnationalism, and the Politics of Form / Rebecca M. Schreiber 282 The Attributes of Sovereignty: The Cold War, Colonialism, and Community Education in Puerto Rico / Alyosha Goldstein 313 All Cumbias, the Cumbia: The Latin Americanization of a Tropical Genre / Hector Fernandez L’Hoeste 338 “Panama Money”: Reading the Transition to U.S. Imperialism / Victor Bascara 365 Contributors 387 Index 391...
