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

• Autore: Luis-Brown David <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800972
• Soggetto topico: Racism - Cuba - History; Racism - Mexico - History; Racism - United States - History; Decolonization - Cuba - History; Decolonization - Mexico - History; Decolonization - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: Cuba Race relations History; Mexico Race relations History; United States Race relations History
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Waves of decolonization
• ISBN: 1-283-06512-6; 9786613065124; 0-8223-9146-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777990803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New Americanists.; e-Duke books scholarly collection.