Transnational Americas : envisioning inter-American area studies in globalization processes /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kaltmeier, Olaf, 1970- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Spanish
Language Notes:English and Spanish.
Published: Tempe, Arizona : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, [2013]
Series:Inter-American studies ; v. 7.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Transnational Americas: envisioning inter-American area studies in globalization processes / Olaf Kaltmeier
  • I. Inter-American geopolitics
  • Regional integration in the Americas / Stefan Schmalz
  • Conflicting constructions of cross-border regional identities in the Cascadia region (Seattle/Vancouver) / Jens Martin Gurr and Olaf Kaltmeier
  • Trespassing frontiers - transgressing race? Hidden traces of Afro-descendants from French Saint Domingue in nineteenth-century eastern Cuba / Jochen Kemner
  • II. Migration, diaspora, translocal communities
  • Latino identity in the U.S.: the need for an ethno-racial standing / Frauke Böger
  • To live in the borderland: transnational motherhood and global care / Elisabeth Tuider
  • Echoes of a strident voice "from abroad": Latin Americans in London and their cultural influence / Libia Villazana
  • Youth identities in an Oaxacan transnational community / Georgia Melville
  • III. Globalizing indigenous identities
  • Globalizing Indigenismo in the new Latin American cinema / David M.J. Wood
  • Dante Cerano's Dia Dos: sex, kinship, and videotape / Jesse Lerner
  • Rigoberta and Domitila: autobiographies and representations of female indigenous leaders / Juliana Ströbele-Gregor
  • Indigenous of the world ...! Pan-ethnic discourse, religion and the spiritualization of ethnicity in transnational fields / Andrián Tovar Simoncic
  • IV. Post-multicultural identity politics
  • Identity as a political project in the Americas / Sophia A. McClennen
  • Multiculturalist dynamics in Canada: the turn that challenges postmodernity / Mihaela Vieru
  • Multiculturalism and the traffic of Difference / Mabel Moraña
  • Narrative spaces and transnational identities in Babel, The Namesake and Quinceañera / Chris Lippard
  • Gazpacho & tomato soup: what we talk about when we talk about (post)multicultural U.S.-American literature / Rüdiger Heinze.