Teaching and Studying the Americas : Cultural Influences from Colonialism to the Present / / edited by A. Pinn, C. Levander

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910967576703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010
• ISBN: 9786612993282; 9781282993280; 1282993283; 9780230114432; 0230114431
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2010.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): PinnAnthony B; LevanderCaroline Field <1964->; EmersonMichael O. <1965->
• Disciplina: 918.1/2
• Soggetti: Teachers - Training of; Ethnology - Latin America; Culture; Education - Curricula; Education - Philosophy; Geology; Teaching and Teacher Education; Latin American Culture; Curriculum Studies; Philosophy of Education; Educational Philosophy
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Good neighbor/bad neighbor : Boltonian Americanism and hemispheric studies / Antonio Barrenechea -- Bad neighbor/good neighbor : across the disciplines toward a hemispheric studies / Caroline Levander -- Coloniality at large : the western hemisphere and the colonial horizon of modernity / Walter Mignolo -- A major motion picture : studying ; and teaching the Americas / Michael O. Emerson -- Embodied meaning : the "look" and "location" of religion in the American hemisphere / Anthony B. Pinn -- Primeval whiteness : white supremacies, (Latin) American history, and the transamerican challenge to critical race studies / Ruth Hill -- The making of "Americans" : old boundaries, new realities / Karen Manges Douglas and Rogelio Saenz -- Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching the history of the western hemisphere / Moramay Lopez-Alonso -- Beyond national borders : researching and teaching Jovita Gonzalez / Heather Miner and Robin Sager -- Migrant archives : new routes in and out of American studies / Rodrigo Lazo -- Partnering across the Americas : crossing national and disciplinary borders in archival development / Melissa Bailar -- Ghosts of the American century : the intellectual, programmatic and institutional challenges for transnational/hemispheric American studies / Matthew Guterl and Deborah Cohn.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book considers how interdisciplinary conversation, critique, and collaboration enrich and transform humanities and social science education for those teaching and studying traditional Americanist fields.