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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825293503321

Autore

Luis-Brown David <1967->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-283-06512-6

9786613065124

0-8223-9146-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Disciplina

305.800972

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-327) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Marti, 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.