David Luis-Brown

Waves of Decolonization

Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343653
• ISBN-10: 0822343657
• Artikelnr.: 23879624

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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