Full Description
This book considers how interdisciplinary conversation, critique, and collaboration enrich and transform humanities and social science education for those teaching and studying traditional Americanist fields.
Contents
Introduction; A.Byrd, M.Emerson, C.Levander & A.B.Pinn PART I: LOCATING AND DISLOCATING THE AMERICAS Good Neighbor/Bad Neighbor: Boltonian Americanism and Hemispheric Studies; A.Barrenechea Bad Neighbor/Good Neighbor: Across the Disciplines Toward a Hemispheric Studies; C.Levander Coloniality at Large: The Western Hemisphere and the Colonial Horizon of Modernity; W.Mignolo PART II: DISCIPLINING HEMISPHERIC STUDIES A Major Motion Picture: Studying and Teaching the Americas; M.O.Emerson Embodied Meaning: The 'Look' and 'Location' of Religion in the American Hemisphere; A.B.Pinn Primeval Whiteness: White Supremacies, (Latin) American History, and the Transamerican Challenge to Critical Race Studies; R.Hill The Making of 'Americans': Old Boundaries, New Realities; K.Manges Douglas & R.Saenz Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the History of the Western Hemisphere; M.López-Alonso PART III: PROGRAMS AND PEDAGOGY Beyond National Borders: Researching and Teaching Jovita González; H.Miner & R.Sager Migrant Archives: New Routes In and Out of American Studies; R.Lazo Partnering Across the Americas: Crossing National and Disciplinary Borders in Archival Development; M.Bailar Ghosts of the American Century: The Intellectual, Programmatic and Institutional Challenges for Transnational/Hemispheric American Studies; M.Guterl & D.Cohn
