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Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction: Cherishing the past, envisioning the future. Entangled practices of heritage and utopia in the Americas / Olaf Kaltmeier, Mirko Petersen, Wilfried Raussert, Julia Roth -- Whither modernity? Latin America, an "entanglement of spaces" / Javier Sanjinés -- Memories of slavery in France and its French Afro-Antillean diaspora : overview of sites of memory and their entanglements with British and U.S.-American images of slavery and debates on reparations / Ulrike Schmieder -- Envisioning freedom futures : Ernst Bloch's not yet and early eighteenth-century slave societies in the Danish West Indies and Dutch Suriname / Heike Raphael-Hernandez -- The link of a former British prime minister's ancestor to Caribbean slavery economy in the current call for reparations in Jamaica / Claudia Rauhut -- Memories in displacement in the public space. The monuments of Juana Azurduy and Christopher Columbus in Argentina / Carolina Crespo -- Populism and the imagination of the past and future / Paula Diehl -- In the shadow of tomorrow : biological entanglements, genetic editing, and a new techno-utopia in the Americas / Rüdiger Kunow.

Introduction -- Growing up in-between: Chinese American identity and belonging in the United States -- Creating the "non-American American dream" overseas: strategic in-betweenness in action -- Perpetually Chinese, but not Chinese enough for China -- "Leftover women" and "kings of the candy shop": the gendered experiences of ABCs in the ancestral homeland -- Conclusion.

How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse. Among the book's most surprising and groundbreaking insights is the tenacity and adaptability of meritocratic ideology across all three sub-discourses, despite its fundamental incompatibility with the American educational system.

Projects that bring the 'hard' sciences into art are increasingly being exhibited in galleries and museums across the world. In a surge of publications on the subject, few focus on regions beyond Europe and the Anglophone world. Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art assembles a new corpus of art-science projects by Latin American artists, ranging from big-budget collaborations with NASA and MIT to homegrown experiments in artists' kitchens. While they draw on recent scientific research, these art projects also 'decolonize' science. If increasing knowledge of the natural world has often gone hand-in-hand with our objectification and exploitation of it, the artists studied here emphasize the subjectivity and intelligence of other species, staging new forms of collaboration and co-creativity beyond the human. They design technologies that work with organic processes to promote the health of ecosystems, and seek alternatives to the logics of extractivism and monoculture farming that have caused extensive ecological damage in Latin America. They develop do-it-yourself, open-source, commons-based practices for sharing creative and intellectual property. They establish critical dialogues between Western science and indigenous thought, reconnecting a disembedded, abstracted form of knowledge with the cultural, social, spiritual, and ethical spheres of experience from which it has often been excluded. Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art interrogates how artistic practices may communicate, extend, supplement, and challenge scientific ideas. At the same time, it explores broader questions in the field of art, including the relationship between knowledge, care, and curation; nonhuman agency; art and utility; and changing approaches to participation. It also highlights important contributions by Latin American thinkers to themes of global significance, including the Anthropocene, climate change, and environmental justice. 'Joanna Page presents a deeply researched account of contemporary art-science projects in Latin America. She situates them at the crux of current discussions on the decolonization of both the sciences and the arts: by questioning Eurocentric views on humanism and modernity, exploring expanded ideas of perception and cognition, and placing Western scientific knowledge within constellations of beliefs and practices that have been marginalised by colonial histories.' – Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, Birkbeck College

Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the prevalence of these representations in American culture, drawing from a wide range of primary and critical works from the early-twentieth century to today. Beginning with science fiction in literary magazines, before taking in radio dramas, film, video games and expansive transmedia franchises, Robert Yeates argues that post-apocalyptic representations of the American city are uniquely suited for explorations of contemporary urban issues. Examining how the post-apocalyptic American city has been repeatedly adapted and repurposed to new and developing media over the last century, this book reveals that the content and form of such texts work together to create vivid and immersive fictional spaces in ways that would otherwise not be possible. Chapters present media-specific analyses of these texts, situating them within their historical contexts and the broader history of representations of urban ruins in American fiction. Original in its scope and cross-media approach, American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction both illuminates little-studied texts and provides provocative new readings of familiar works such as Blade Runner and The Walking Dead, placing them within the larger historical context of imaginings of the American city in ruins.

List of Figures -- Preface / David L. Eng -- Journeys, Itineraries, Horizons: An Introduction / Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo -- Enduring Spaces and Bodies. 1. "Shanghai, Hong Kong, Egg Fu Yung, Fortune Cookie Always Wrong" / Danni Lin -- 2. All the Pinays are straight, all the queers are Pinoy, but some of us / Kimberly Alidio -- 3. The Hybridity of Race: Science, Geopolitics, and the Queer Genealogy of the "Chinese Jew" / Jih-Fei Cheng -- 4. "Sewing Patches through Performance" and "Courses in Brown Love" / D'Lo -- 5. nine genealogies (of un/belonging) / Patti Duncan -- 6. Lateral Diasporas and Queer Adaptations in Fresh Off the Boat and The Family Law / Douglas S. Ishii -- Queer Unsettlings: Geographies, Sovereignties. 7. "Khmer Alphabet," "Galaxies Like Blood," "Teeth and Chairs (Phnom Penh)," "Pornography of Days," "LDR (Amsterdam ssà San Francisco) (for Wai)," "Samsara," "'Eighteen Levels of Hell' (Đại Nam Amusement Park, Sài Gòn)," "Impossible Poem" / Việt Lê -- 8. You're Here, You're Queer, But You're Still a Tourist / Kim Compoc -- 9. Filipinx and Latinx Queer Critique: Houseboys and Housemaids in the US-Mexican Borderlands / Sony Coráñez Bolton -- 10. Queer South Asian Desire, Blackness, and the Apartheid State / Vanita Reddy -- 11. Pinkwashing, Tourism, and the (In)visibility of Israeli State Violence / Jennifer Lynn Kelly -- 12. Asian Settler Abstraction and Administrative Aloha / Reid Uratani -- Building Justice: Queer Movements in Asian North America. 13. In All Our Splendid Selves: A Roundtable Discussion on Queer API Activism in Three Political Moments / Eric Estuar Reyes and Eric C. Wat -- 14. Manservants to Millenials: A Brief Queer APA History / Amy Sueyoshi -- 15. From Potlucks to Protests: Reflections from Organizing Queer and Trans API Communities / Sasha Wijeyeratne -- 16. Sing Freedom, Sing / Kim Tran -- 17. Building a Queer Asian Movement: Building Communities and Organizing for Change / Glenn D. Magpantay -- Messing up the Archives and Circuits of Desire. 18. inspector of journals makes introductions: Fan & Basket plot escape from Peabody Essex Museum / Ching-In Chen -- 19. On (En)countering the Archival Sidekick / Joyce Gabiola -- 20. Camp Objects: Orientalist Kitsch and Trashy Re-Collections of the Japanese American Incarceration / Chris A. Eng -- 21. Asian Men and the Construction of Racial Desire on Craigslist / C. Winter Han -- 22. "I Think I'll Be More Slutty": The Promise of Queer Pilipinx/a/o/American Desire on Mobile Digital Apps in Los Angeles and Manila / Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza -- 23. Re/Generations: A Queer Korean American Diasporic Response / Anthony Yooshin Kim and Margaret Rhee -- Burning Down the House-Institutional Queerings. 24. Model/Minority Veteran: The Queer Asian American Challenge to Post-9/11 US Military Culture / Long T. Bui -- 25. Disrupting normative choreographies: queer Asian Canadian interventions making a mess with/in a "Too Asian" university / John Paul Catungal -- 26. Open in Emergency: on Queer(ing) Asian American Mental Health / Mimi Khúc -- 27. Religion and Ritual in the Lives of Queer Filipinx in Canada / May Farrales -- 28. Coming Back Around to a Place of Grace: A personal theological reflection and journey by a 1.5 generation Korean American transman / Sung Won Park -- 29. "Save the Thai Temple": Wat Mongkolratanaram, Thai America, and the Heteronormative Logics of South Berkeley / Pahole Sookkasikon -- Mediating Queer. 30. In which I watch Youtube to watch fan video edits of you For Nico Minoru on Marvel's Runaways / Kay Ulanday Barrett -- 31. PhilippinExcess: Queerness, Multiraciality, Midwesternness, and the Cultural Politics of Legibility / Thomas Xavier Sarmiento -- 32. Balang's Dance: Puro Arte as Queer Affect / Casey Mecija -- 33. "I Will Always Love You": Queer Filipino Performances of Blackness, Death, and Return / Thea Quiray Tagle -- 34. The Opposite of Performance: M. Butterfly in 2017 / Emily Raymundo -- 35. The Craft: QTPOC Tarot in Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki's Skim / Christine "Xine" Yao -- Finding One's Way: Routes of Lives and Bodies. 36. Loving Our Children, Finding Our Way / Marsha Aizumi -- 37. Needles + Cushions: a reflection on memory / Syd Yang -- 38. Queercore Prepped Me For Cancer / Leslie Mah -- 39. This One Body / Maiana Minahal -- 40. Mamang Or Death in Vegas / Karen Tongson -- 41. To Fukaya Michiyo / traci kato-kiriyama.

"Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America's first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and culminated in the dramatic rise of the National American Party. As previous studies have focused on the coasts, historians have not yet completely explained why westerners joined the ranks of the National American, or "Know Nothing," Party or why the nation's bloodiest anti-immigrant riots erupted in western cities—namely Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis. In focusing on the antebellum West, Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis illuminates the cultural, economic, and political issues that originally motivated American nativism and explains how it ultimately shaped the political relationship between church and state.

In six detailed chapters, Ritter explains how unprecedented immigration from Europe and rapid westward expansion reignited fears of Catholicism as a corrosive force. He presents new research on the inner sanctums of the secretive Order of Know-Nothings and provides original data on immigration, crime, and poverty in the urban West. Ritter argues that the country's first bout of political nativism actually renewed Americans' commitment to church-state separation. Native-born Americans compelled Catholics and immigrants, who might have otherwise shared an affinity for monarchism, to accept American-style democracy. Catholics and immigrants forced Americans to adopt a more inclusive definition of religious freedom.

This study offers valuable insight into the history of nativism in U.S. politics and sheds light on present-day concerns about immigration, particularly the role of anti-Islamic appeals in recent elections."

Migration, Exclusion, and Strategies of Resistance -- The Period of the Manila Galleon: Chinese and Spaniards in the Philippines -- Forced Migration and Voluntary Migration in the Modern Age -- Free Migration of Chinese to the United States -- Inter-American Entanglements: Spreading Xenophobia?

"This book explores Latin America through a political psychology lens. This book presents a broad spectrum of theoretical and methodological perspectives illustrating how political psychology has addressed critical social issues in Latin America and provides a selective summary of the work carried out by some of the leading Latin American researchers in political psychology. This volume will allow readers to identify the most relevant topics of this discipline in Latin America, including the specific structural conditions of inequality and intergroup conflict in the region, as well as the most relevant contributions from Latin America to the global field of political psychology, including strategies of resistance and resilience and reflections on the potential transforming power of citizens to effect change through political participation and collective action"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: From Equal Rights to Full Rights -- Part I. Citizens of the world -- 1 Sitting at the "Common Table" -- 2 A Higher "Standard of Life" for the World -- Part II. Dreams deferred -- 3 A "Parliament of Working Women" -- 4 Social Justice under Siege -- 5 Pan-Internationalisms -- Part III. New Deals -- 6 Social Democracy, American Style -- 7 A Women's "New Deal for the World" -- Part IV. Universal declarations -- 8 Wartime Journeys -- 9 Intertwined Freedoms -- 10 Cold War Advances -- Part V. Redreamings -- 11 The Pivotal Sixties -- 12 Sisters and Resisters -- Epilogue: Of the Many, By the Many, For the Many -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A note on the type

Introduction: Competing visions of patriotism -- The revolution: Declaring and constituting a nation -- The early Republic: Young, expanding, and divided -- The Civil War: Testing whether the nation could endure -- The Gilded Age: Wealth, empire, and resistance -- The Progressive Era: From Roosevelt and reform to World War -- The Depression and World War II: Beyond the Greatest Generation -- The 1960s: Love it, leave it, or change it -- The 1980s: Morning and mourning in America -- Conclusion: Patriotism in the age of Trump.

"This book addresses the psychosocial causes, consequences, and underpinnings of intra-regional migration in Latin America. War, political instability, and disparities in wealth and opportunity have long driven migration within Latin America, and this process shows no sign of slowing. In this book, cross-cultural and social psychologists address the urgent issues that face migrants throughout Central and South America. This includes overt prejudice and discrimination, particularly toward immigrants of indigenous or African-American origin; micro-aggressions; the tendency to positively value fair skin and European surnames; as well as political questions regarding the nature of citizenship and nationhood and links between legacies of colonialism and slavery and present-day inequality. Contributors offer conceptual, theoretical, and methodological tools for understanding the psychological processes that underlie migration and intergroup contact. Chapters focus on migration between and within countries in Central and South America, including Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil"--

"This collection focuses on conceptions of the unfamiliar from the viewpoint of mainstream American history: aliens, immigrants, ethnic groups, and previously unencountered ideas and ideologies in Trumpian America. The book suggests bringing historical thinking back to the center of American Studies, given that it has been recently challenged by the influential memory studies boom. As much as identity-building appears to be the central concern for much of the current practice in American history writing, it is worth keeping in mind that historical truth may not always directly contribute to one's identity-building. The researcher's constant quest for truth does not equate to already possessing it. History changes all the time, because it consists of our constant reinterpretation of the past. It is only the past that does not change. This collection aims at keeping these two apart, while scrutinizing a variety of contested topics in American history, from xenophobic attitudes toward eighteenth-century university professors, Apache masculinity, Ku Klux Klan, Tom Waits's lyrics, and the politics of the Trump era"--

Introduction: Between colonialism and coloniality : colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies today / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias -- Race and domination in colonial Latin American studies / Daniel Nemser -- Self-representation and self-governance in early Latin America / Karen Graubart -- Mestizaje as dispositif for a paradigm shift in colonial studies / Laura Catelli -- Race, ethnicity and nationhood in the formation of criollismo in Spanish America / José Antonio Mazzotti -- An integrational approach to colonial semiosis / Galen Brokaw -- Latin American and Caribbean Colonial Studies and/in the Decolonial Turn / Nelson Maldonado-Torres -- The ecocritical turn and the study of early colonial societies in the Caribbean : of dogs, rivers, and the environmental humanities / Lizabeth Paravisini Gebert -- Coloniality and cinema / Juan Poblete -- Old Testament, New World : diluvialism and the Amerindian origins debate in the Enlightenment / Ruth Hill -- The cannibal cogito and Brazilian antropofagia : radical heterogeneity or family resemblance? / Luís Madureira -- Presumptions of empire : relapses, reboots, and reversions in the Transpacific networks of Iberian globalization / John D. Blanco -- Imperial tension, colonial contours : Jesuits, slavery, and race within and beyond the Portuguese Atlantic / Hugh Cagle -- The Caribbean conundrum : José Antonio Saco's Hispanic archive and the Black Atlantic / Eyda Merediz -- Material Encounters : Columbus's Diario del primer viaje and the objects of colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies / Raquel Albarrán -- It comes with the territory : indigenous materialities and western knowledge / Gustavo Verdesio -- Creole knowledge in colonial Mexico : religion, gender and power / Stephanie Kirk -- The colonial Latin American archive : dispossession, ruins, reinvention / Anna More -- Materialities and archives / Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez -- Port cities as sites of spatial knowledge in eighteenth-century Spanish America / Mariselle Meléndez, -- Space, movement and writing in Colonial Río de la Plata / Loreley El Jaber -- The white legend : El Dorado, Pachakuti, and Walter Raleigh's discovery of (Latin) America / Ralph Bauer -- The agency of translation in colonial Latin America : re-thinking the roles of non-European linguistic intermediaries / Larissa Brewer-García -- Intercultural (mis)translations : colonial static and authorship in the Florentine Codex and the Relaciones geográficas of new Spain / Kelly McDonough -- Defending the indefensible : Las Casas and the exceptions to sovereignty / Nicole Legnani -- The (dis)continuities of decolonized gender and sexual identity in the Andes / Michael Horswell.

Prologue -- Introduction: an intimate rebellion -- Geographies of surveillance and control -- Enslaved women and strategies of evasion and resistance -- Free issues: free people of color in antebellum Southampton County -- Generation, resistance, and survival: African American children and the Southampton Rebellion -- Surviving Southampton: geographies of survival -- Conclusion.