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The Future Is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies is an exciting collection of essays representative of new voices in this ever-expanding field. Writing in English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole, the volume's contributors look at the fields

Selected key tropes in inter-American studies : ways of looking at entangled Americas / Wilfried Raussert -- Tropos clave seleccionados en estudios interamericanos : modos para enfocar las Americas entrelazadas / Wilfried Raussert -- [1] Colonial/neocolonial -- Haunted by Spain : the past and identities in English and French America / Jonathan Hart -- Del progreso al orden : letrados y poder en el origen de los Estados-nación en el Sur Americano / Alejandra Bottinelli -- [2] Independence -- Re-enacting independence through nostalgia : the 1976 U.S. Bicentennial after the Vietnam War / David Ryan -- La independencia de Brasil : movimientos entre espacios y el contexto de las revoluciones atlánticas, 1808-1831 / Stefan Rinke -- [3] Religion -- Going native with God on the side : mission as traveling culture / Rüdiger Kunow -- Pombagira y el obispo : sobre identidades religiosas transnacionales / Heinrich Schäfer -- [4] Border -- The centrality of the Canada-U.S. border for hemispheric studies of the Americas / Claudia Sadowski-Smith -- Trascendiendo límites : la frontera México-Estados Unidos en el cine / Norma Iglesias -- [5] Mobility -- Identity and in-betweenness : hybridity as transcultural mobility in the music of Native American R. Carlos Nakai and his band Jackalope / Deborah Gail -- Migración de tránsito y ayuda humanitaria : apuntes sobre las casas de migrantes en la ruta migratoria del Pacífico sur en México / Yaatsil Guevara -- [6] Race/indigeneity -- Negotiating violence and identity in Sherman Alexie's Indian killer / Georgio Mariani -- Un continente "de color" : Langston Hughes y América Latina / Astrid Haas -- [7] Gender -- Becoming "La chiquilla de Tijuana" and "Staging contradiction" : Ruby Gardenia's Lucha libre exótica in a Mexican border city / Tabea Huth -- Deterritorializadas y deslenguadas, pero heroizadas : Concepción Benavídez, Juana García, y Celaya Reyes / Margarita Ramos and Sara Quintero-Ramirez -- [8] Decolonial reflections -- La ética Andino-Cristiana de los relatos de condenados / Gonzalo Portocarrero -- Decolonial reflections on hemispheric partitions : the "Western Hemisphere" in the colonial horizon of modernity and the irreversible historical shift to the "Eastern Hemisphere" / Walter Mignolo