Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame Book

Contents

About the Series....................vii
Acknowledgments....................ix
Introduction: Across the Americas Heidi Tinsman and Sandhya Shukla....................1
Up from Empire: James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South Harilaos Stecopoulos....................34
Bastards of the Unfinished Revolution: Bolívar's Ismael and Rizal's Martí at the End of the Nineteenth Century John D. Blanco....................63
Confederate Cuba Caroline Levander....................88
Pleasure and Colonial Resistance: Translating the Politics of Pidgin in Milton Murayama's All I Asking for Is My Body Susan Y. Najita....................111
Experimental Dreams, Ethical Nightmares: Leprosy, Isolation, and Human Experimentation in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii Nicholas Turse....................138
Tracking the "China Peril" along the U.S. Pacific Rim: Carpetbaggers, Yacht People, 1.2 Billion Cyborg Consumers, and the Bamboo Gang, Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You! Rob Wilson....................168
Uprooted Bodies: Indigenous Subjects and Colonial Discourses in Atlantic American Studies Michelle Stephens....................190
Blackness Goes South: Race and Mestizaje in Our America Rachel Adams....................214
Queer Harvests: Homosexuality, the U.S. New Left, and the Venceremos Brigades to Cuba Ian Lekus....................249
Dislocations of Cold War Cultures: Exile, Transnationalism, and the Politics of Form Rebecca M. Schreiber....................282
The Attributes of Sovereignty: The Cold War, Colonialism, and Community Education in Puerto Rico Alyosha Goldstein....................313
All Cumbias, the Cumbia: The Latin Americanization of a Tropical Genre Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste....................338
"Panama Money": Reading the Transition to U.S. Imperialism Victor Bascara....................365
Contributors....................387
Index....................391