Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-327) and index.
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 MartÃ, 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.