Crossing Boundaries

Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World

Brian D. Behnken, Simon Wendt

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2013
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780739181317
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World explores ethnic and racial nationalism within a transnational and transcultural framework in the long twentieth century (late nineteenth to early twenty-first century). The contributors to this volume examine how national solidarity and identity—with their vast array of ideological, political, intellectual, social, and ethno-racial qualities—crossed juridical, territorial, and cultural boundaries to become transnational; how they altered the ethnic and racial visions of nation-states throughout the twentieth century; and how they ultimately influenced conceptions of national belonging across the globe.

Human beings live in an increasingly interconnected, transnational, global world. National economies are linked worldwide, information can be transmitted around the world in seconds, and borders are more transparent and fluid. In this process of transnational expansion, the very definition of what constitutes a nation and nationalism in many parts of the world has been expanded to include individuals from different countries, and, more importantly, members of ethno-racial communities. But crossing boundaries is not a new phenomenon. In fact, transnationalism has a long and sordid history that has not been fully appreciated. Scholars and laypeople interested in national development, ethnic nationalism, as well as world history will find Crossing Boundaries indispensable.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Politics of Belonging on a Caribbean Borderland
• Chapter 2: “To the Reconciliation of All Dominicans”
• Chapter 3: Mexico’s American/America’s Mexican
• Chapter 4: Nuestro USA?
• Chapter 5: Imperial Citizenship and the Origins of South African Nationalism, 1902–1923
• Chapter 6: “An African Nation in the Western Hemisphere”
• Chapter 7: Transnational Ethnic Identities and Garinagu Political Organizations in the Diaspora
• Chapter 8: Avoiding Vagabond Nationality
• Chapter 9: Russians in Manchuria
• Chapter 10: Japan’s Race War
• Chapter 11: Creating a European Constitutional Monarchy for Afghanistan
• Chapter 12: “So Tired of the Parts I Had to Play”
• Chapter 13: About “Thunderstorms of History” and a Society in Crisis
• Chapter 14: Beyond the Straight State
• About the Contributors