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Informationen zum Autor David Luis-Brown is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English at Claremont Graduate University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Reveals how! between the 1880s and the 1930s! writer-activists in Cuba! Mexico! and the US developed narratives and theories of decolonization! of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. This book features an array of thinkers who linked local struggles against racial oppression and imperialism to similar struggles in other nations. 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
