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"Sandhya Shukla and Heidi Tinsman have put together a remarkable volume that takes the reader in surprising scholarly directions. The essays stage vital conversations between the Pacific Rim and Latin America through the vector of U. S. empire; between black diaspora and mestizaje through the comparative calculus of race; between queer, feminist histories and Cold War politics in the crucible of the Caribbean. This volume represents the next wave of scholarship in transnational American studies, one in which the coordinates have necessarily shifted beyond the geographical confines of 'the Americas' but which is ever-focused on relations of power."--Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, author of "The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development"
List of contents
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
About the author
Sandhya Shukla and Heidi Tinsman, eds.
Summary
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.
