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

Author/creator Luis-Brown, David, 1967-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Descriptionix, 340 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects
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.

SeriesNew Americanists
New Americanists. ^A346168
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-327) and index.
LCCN 2008013871
ISBN9780822343653 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822343657 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822343660 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822343665 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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