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Waves of decolonization : discourses of race and hemispheric citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States /

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Luis-Brown, David, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Racism > Cuba > History.
Racism > Mexico > History.
Racism > United States > History.
Decolonization > Cuba > History.
Decolonization > Mexico > History.
Decolonization > United States > History.
Cuba > Race relations > History.
Mexico > Race relations > History.
United States > Race relations > History.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780822391463
0822391465
1283065126
9781283065122
9786613065124
6613065129
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Waves of decolonization and discourses of hemispheric citizenship
  • "White slaves" and the "arrogant mestiza": reconfiguring whiteness in The squatter and the don and Ramona
  • "The coming unities" in "our America": decolonization and anticolonial messianism in Martí, Du Bois, and the Santa de Cabora
  • Transnationalisms against the state: contesting neocolonialism in the Harlem Renaissance, Cuban negrismo, and Mexican indigenismo
  • "Rising tides of color": ethnography and theories of race and migration in Boas, Park, Gamio, and Hurston
  • Coda: Waves of decolonization and discourses of hemispheric citizenship.

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