Research Catalog

Title

Transnational Americas : envisioning inter-American area studies in globalization processes / Olaf Kaltmeier (Ed.).

Publication

Tempe, AZ : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kaltmeier, Olaf, 1970-

Description

vii, 268 pages; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Inter-American studies = Estudios interamericanos ; volume 7

Uniform Title

Inter-American studies v. 7.

Subjects

• Transnationalism
• Transnationalism > America
• United States > Relations > Latin America
• Latin America > Relations > United States
• Multiculturalism > America
• Geopolitics > America
• Globalization > Social aspects > America
• America > Civilization > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• English and Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781931010924 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1931010927 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012044438

OCLC

822995145

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library