Transnational crossroads [[electronic resource] ] : remapping the Americas and the Pacific / / edited by Camilla Fojas & Rudy p.Guevarra, Jr

• Pubblicazione: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (492 p.)
• Disciplina: 308.800973
• Soggetto topico: Ethnic relations - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Ethnic relations History; Asia Relations United States History; United States Relations Asia History; Latin America Relations United States History; United States Relations Latin America History; Islands of the Pacific Relations United States History; United States Relations Islands of the Pacific
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FojasCamilla <1971-> GuevarraRudy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1. The End of Empire; 1. Postcolonial Im/migration and Transnational Activist Practices; 2. Imperial Works; 3. Hawaiian Quilts, Global Domesticities, and Patterns of Counterhegemony; Part 2. Comparative Racialization; 4. Dismantling Privileged Settings; 5. (De)Constructing Multiple Gaps; 6. Mabuhay Compañero; Part 3. The American Pacific; 7. Spectacles of Citizenship; 8. From Captain Cook to Captain Kirk, or, From Colonial Exploration to Indigenous Exploitation ; 9. Re-archiving Asian Settler Colonialism in a Time of Hawaiian Decolonization, or, Two Walks along Kamehameha Highway 10. Multitasking Mediators; Part 4. Crossroads of American Migration; 11. The "Yellow Peril" in the United States and Peru; 12. Crossing Borders, Locating Home; 13. Chinese Migration to the Western Hemisphere; 14. Unequal Transpacific Capital Transfers; 15. Ganbateando; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented migration and interaction for Asian, Latin American, and Pacific Islander cultures in the Americas and the American Pacific. Some of these ethnic groups already had historic ties, but technology, migration, and globalization during the twentieth century brought them into even closer contact. Transnational Crossroads explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950.Through a comparative
• Titolo autorizzato: Transnational crossroads
• ISBN: 1-280-68783-5; 9786613664778; 0-8032-4088-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461821703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Borderlands and transcultural studies.