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This essay discusses the multifaceted and symbolic representations of border and borderlands in Courtney Hunt"s debut film Frozen River (2008). Using Foucault"s concept of heterotopia as the point of departure, the article discusses the borderlands of Mohawk territory between the U.S. and Canada as progressive spaces and contact zones where levels of individual and psychological border intersect with the geopolitical border, marked by two nations and an autonomous Mohawk reserve, in their impact on translocal community building. In particular, it focuses on the development of the relationship between the film"s two female protagonists as a reflection on shifting border discourses in times of global migration and on how individual fates are inextricably linked within local transboundary culture and its political and cultural processes. ; Este ensayo discute las multifacéticas y simbólicas representaciones de la frontera y las tierras fronterizas que se representan en la ópera prima de Courtney Hunt, Frozen River (2008). Utilizando el concepto de Foucault "heterotopía", el artículo aborda el tema de las tierras mohawk en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y Canadá como espacios progresivos y zonas de contacto, donde distintos niveles de fronteras individuales y psicológicas se intersectan con la frontera geopolítica, marcada por dos naciones y la reservación autónoma mohawk, en su impacto sobre la construcción de una comunidad translocal. En particular se enfoca en el desarrollo de la relación entre las dos protagonistas femeninas de la película, que es un reflejo de los cambiantes discursos en una época de migración global, y de cómo los destinos individuales están inevitablemente ligados a la cultura local transfronteriza.

The book provides an innovative look at the relationship between music and the social. It traces the presence of music in the world of politics, identity politics, cultural heritage and art and literature. The book establishes music as a key actor in the processes of reinventing the social.

Spurred by a new wave of protests around the world - from the Occupy movement, Black Lives Matter, the Arab Spring, and the various street marches against neoliberal governments throughout Latin America - Raussert examines how artistic practices in the Americas have challenged the control of public space in relation to gender, race, sexuality, class, and age in three periods (the 1920s and 1930s, the 1960s and 1970s, and the new millennium). This inter-American perspective sheds light on common utopian aspirations across time and space, as in the networked movements of indigenous, African-descended and the diasporic groups, epitomized by the Zapatista slogan: "Mientras los medios de comunicación sigan mintiendo, las paredes seguirán hablando" (As long as the media continues to lie, the walls will continue to talk). Indeed, this must-read book shows how contesting artists subvert the increasing privatization, consumerization and electronic monitoring of public space and its virtualization in the new media in our own time period. | George Yúdice (Professor of Latin American Studies and Modern Literature at the University of Miami, U.S.A.)

"When SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael first called for "Black Power" on a Civil Rights march in 1966 he not only gave name to a movement that shaped one of the most significant periods of the African American freedom struggle in the USA. His background as son of migrants from Trinidad and Tobago also gives an indication on the international dimension of the Black Power movement. Black Power was informed by the ideas of Afro-diasporic intellectuals and Pan-Africanists such as W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, and Malcolm X. Deeply rooted in practices of Black transnationalism, Black Power heralded a new era of African American defiance, militancy, and cultural awareness, which transcended the U.S. and left its footprints throughout the Hemisphere, providing marginalized communities beyond national and cultural boundaries with meaningful symbols of resistance and self-affirmation in the face of racial oppression. Black Power's hemispheric impact encouraged the emergence of musical genres, antiracist movements, and border-crossing networks of solidarity among Afro-descendants in the Caribbean, Latin and North America, and continues to be a source of inspiration for the political and cultural expressions of the Black Americas in the 21st century as manifested by the Black Lives Matter movement. This compilation of essays by scholars and activists intends to fill an important gap by addressing Black Power within a historical, polyvocal and multi-locational approach shedding light on manifestations of Black Power from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, the United States and their entanglements"--

Introduction. Sonic politics : music and the narration of the social in the Americas from the 1960s to the present / Olaf Kaltmeier and Wilfried Raussert -- Singing resistance, rebellion, and revolution into being : collective political action and song / Helen Cordes and Eric Selbin -- African American music in the Americas : slavery, sounds, and forms of knowledge / Ulfried Reichardt -- Only a pawn in their game? : civil rights sounding signatures in the summer of 1963 / Frank Mehring -- Inter-public-agenda-setting effect through political activism : the role of hip hop music in the 2004 U.S. presidential election / María de los Ángeles Flores, Carol L. Adams-Means, and Maxwell E. McCombs -- Calling out around the world : how soul music transnationalized the African American freedom struggle in the black power era (1965-1975) / Matti Steinitz -- Si una vez : chicana sensibilities and xicanista soundscapes / Miriam Strube -- Hip hop in Ciudad Juarez : a form of political participation / María del Carmen de la Peza C -- The fandango sin fronteras movement and sonic migrations : performing community across borders / Wilfried Raussert -- The search for a new collective epic in Nicaragua's post-revolutionary music / Luis E. Duarte -- Rockin' for Pachamama : political struggle and the narration of history in Ecuadorian rock music / Olaf Kaltmeier -- Punk is dead. Or is it? Strategies of subcultural positioning in the (re-)making of the punk movement / Martin Butler -- Political pie-throwing : Dead Kennedys and the yippie-punk continuum / Michael Stewart Foley.

Literary and cultural mobilities / Maryemma Graham and Wilfried Raussert -- On routes and roots : movement and rootedness in Garifuna culture / Paula Prescod -- CircumCaribbean sisterhood : patterns of migration in Cristina Garcia's The Aguero sisters / John Lowe -- Tracing afro diasporic histories : translocational storytelling and entangled afro Americas in Ntozake Shange's Sassfrass, cypress & indigo and Edwidge Danticat's Brother I'm dying / Wilfried Raussert -- "My history is a creature nobody really believes in. My history is a foreign word." : second-generation immigrant identity in David Chariandy's Soucouyant / Miriam Brandel -- From granny's knee to graduate seminar : the travels of the Soucouyant / Giselle Liza Anatol --Translocating the Caribbean, positioning im/mobilities : the sonic politics of Las Krudas from Cuba / Julia Roth -- Biocultural and new media mobilities / Maryemma Graham and Wilfried Raussert -- Intimate ties : biotic mobility and iInter-American studies / Rudiger Kunow -- Tattoo travels : on mobilities and mobilizations of American skin art / Martin Butler -- United colors of belonging : participatory culture and diversity 2.0 in the crowd sourced documentary "life in a day" / Sebastian Thies -- Transnational forces, technological developments, and the role of the state in the Mexican audiovisual sector / Jose Carlos Lozano -- Mission inverted : inter-American religious flows and how to capture them / Heinrich Wilhelm Schafer -- Traveling politics, traveling ideologies, and transmigrations / Maryemma Graham and Wilfried Raussert -- The polysemic use of identity and culture in international migration : the case of Central American migration in Mexico / Rodolfo Casillas -- The mobility of hope and violence in Sin Nombre / Josef Raab -- Mexican indigenismo in hemispheric context : elements for a historiography of inter-American entanglements in the first half of the twentieth century / Olaf Kaltmeier -- Boas goes to Americas : the emergence of transamerican perspectives on "culture" / Afef Benessaieh -- Moby-Dick and globalization / John Carlos Rowe.