Teaching and Studying the Americas: Cultural Influences from Colonialism to the Present

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Good Neighbor/Bad Neighbor: Boltonian Americanism and Hemispheric Studies....Pages 13-26
Bad Neighbor/Good Neighbor: Across the Disciplines toward Hemispheric Studies....Pages 27-47
Coloniality at Large: The Western Hemisphere and the Colonial Horizon of Modernity....Pages 49-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
A Major Motion Picture: Studying and Teaching the Americas....Pages 77-92
Embodied Meaning: The “Look” and “Location” of Religion in the American Hemisphere....Pages 93-108
Primeval Whiteness: White Supremacists, (Latin) American History, and the Trans-American Challenge to Critical Race Studies....Pages 109-138
The Making of “Americans”: Old Boundaries, New Realities....Pages 139-156
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the History of the Western Hemisphere....Pages 157-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Beyond National Borders: Researching and Teaching Jovita González....Pages 179-198
Migrant Archives: New Routes in and out of American Studies....Pages 199-217
Partnering Across the Americas: Crossing National and Disciplinary Borders in Archival Development....Pages 219-242
Ghosts of the American Century: The Intellectual, Programmatic, and Institutional Challenges for Transnational/Hemispheric American Studies....Pages 243-262
Back Matter....Pages 263-296