Race and Transnationalism in the Americas

Benjamin Bryce, David M. K. Sheinin, Benjamin Bryce, David M. K. Sheinin

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2021
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780822988168
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

National borders and transnational forces have been central in defining the meaning of race in the Americas. Race and Transnationalism in the Americas examines the ways that race and its categorization have functioned as organizing frameworks for cultural, political, and social inclusion—and exclusion—in the Americas. Because racial categories are invariably generated through reference to the "other," the national community has been a point of departure for understanding race as a concept. Yet this book argues that transnational forces have fundamentally shaped visions of racial difference and ideas of race and national belonging throughout the Americas, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Examining immigration exclusion, indigenous efforts toward decolonization, government efforts to colonize, sport, drugs, music, populism, and film, the authors examine the power and limits of the transnational flow of ideas, people, and capital. Spanning North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, the volume seeks to engage in broad debates about race, citizenship, and national belonging in the Americas.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Toward New Coordinates?
• Chapter One. Asian Migration, Racial Hierarchies, and Exclusion in Argentina, 1890–1920
• Chapter Two. Intersections, Barriers, and Borders in Gregorio Titiriku’s Republic of Qullasuyu
• Chapter Three. Race and Political Rights: Constructions of Citizenship among British Caribbeans inside and outside the British Empire, 1918–1962
• Chapter Four. Crossing the Border at the Primer Congreso Indigenista Interamericano, 1940
• Chapter Five. No Place in the Cosmic Race? The False Promises of Mestizaje and Indigenismo in Postrevolutionary Mexico
• Chapter Six. Creating False Analogies: Race and Drug Wars 1930s to 1950s
• Chapter Seven. Baseball and the Categorization of Race in Venezuela
• Chapter Eight. Making Their Own Mahatma: Salvador’s Filhos de Gandhy and the Local History of a Global Phenomenon
• Chapter Nine. Reading the Caribbean and United States through Panamanian reggae en español
• Chapter Ten. The Tortuous Road toward the Building of a Mosque in Buenos Aires: Overcoming Racial Stereotypes under Populist Governments
• Chapter Eleven. Buried: Race, Photography, and Memory in Damiana Kryygi
• Epilogue. Overcoming the National
• Notes
• About the Contributors
• Index