...Sridevi Menon Duke University Press 2006 Where Is West Asia in Asian America? “A si a” and the Politics of Space in A si an A meric a In the weeks after 9/11, the white supremacist Mark Stroman shot and Sridevi Menon killed a store clerk from Pakistan...

...Eric Estuar Reyes The presence of Filipinos as corporeal and discursive subjects within both America and Asian America has long been contested. On one hand, the dynamic juridical status of Filipinos in America has ranged from American colonial subjects and American nationals to naturalized and...

...Ana María Dopico As Social Text published its first essays on Latin America, the Americas were living the disastrous consequences of a hemispheric cold war in the forms of dictatorships, military rule, and brutal state violence; confronting popular and institutionalized revolutions; and suffering...

... Neoliberal Personhood in North America and Britain Jane Elliott At the end of the 1970s, as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan took office, two best-­selling books about choice were published in America: William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice (1979) and Milton and Rose Friedman’s Free to Choose...

... disability neoliberalism amputation slow death Michel Foucault The Sovereignty of Subtraction Hypo/Hyperhabilitation and the Cultural Politics of Amputation in America H. N. Lukes Americans are newly attending to amputation. The year 2014 alone offered stories about the courage of US...

...Karen Tongson Duke University Press 2005 JJ Chinois’s Oriental Express, or, How a Suburban Heartthrob Seduced Red America This essay was composed before eleven states—mostly red, but also Karen Tongson blue—inscribed the...

... findings . New York: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute. Evans, Karin. 2000 . The lost daughters of China: Abandoned girls, their journey to America, and the search for a missing past . New York: Putnam. Finkler, Kaja. 2001 . The kin in the gene: The medicalization of family and kin-ship in...

...Daniel Balderston; José Quiroga Duke University Press 2003 A Beautiful, Sinister Fairyland GAY SUNSHINE PRESS DOES LATIN AMERICA Fairyland Daniel...

...Herman L. Bennett © 2007 Duke University Press 2007 Writing into a Void Representing Sl avery and Freedom in the N arr ative of Colonial Spanish America This essay engages the making of black identities...

... articulation of love. In this rehearsal, the authors consider the ethnographic and institutional entanglements that bring them to this project through a playful presentation of “liner notes” to their mixtape for America. In so doing they trace an unromantic love of country—love of the desert, love of the swamp...

... CENTRAL AMERICA AND PANAMA In the summer of 1996, I traveled with a group of Chinese Panamanians Lok Siu to San José, Costa Rica, to attend the annual convention for Chinese Associations of Central America and Panama (La Convención de Aso- ciaciónes Chinas de Centroamérica y Panam Upon our...

...Adrián Pérez Melgosa This essay researches the complex role that films portraying Anglo-Latin romances have played in the construction, dissemination, and reconstruction of Latin Americanism—the set of discourses representing and theorizing Latin America from local, U.S., and European...

... imagining “dislocation,” and argues that work on the Americas has been particularly fertile in developing it. The essays in the volume it presents (the introduction contends) both dramatize fragments of a contemporary world that seems more mobile and fluid than ever, and sink back deeply into place. They...

...Pamela Voekel; Elliott Young Duke University Press 2007 The Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas For the past three summers, the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transna- Pamela Voekel tional History of the Americas has hosted roughly seventy-five...

...Mary Louise Pratt This brief afterword uses the image of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City to reflect on the north-south contact zones of the Americas, then goes on to examine how the five essays collected in this special issue of Social Text , which were presented at the...

... postcolonial theory is still a productive approach, this entry questions the applicability of the postcolonial paradigm to study sixteenth-century Latin America, nineteenth-century Africa, or the twentieth-century Caribbean. The Caribbean and Latin America are used as a disciplinary counterpoint, to trace the...

... America. The essay also foregrounds a methodological question, one that underlines the vexed relationship between visual histories of South Asia and the visual economies of race and religion in the United States. Viewing Shah's drawings demands a different perspective on South Asian American visual...

...Jodi A. Byrd This essay draws upon critical ethnic studies, Indigenous critical theory, and settler colonial studies to consider how biopolitics and biocapital have converged in North America through the racial regimes inaugurated by settler colonialism. It does so by close reading the popular...

... relations already configured and disposed by imperial conquest and racial capitalism. In the Americas broadly and the United States specifically, colonization and transatlantic slavery set in motion the dynamics and differential racialized valuations that continue to underwrite particular forms of...

... revolutionary experiences, especially those in Latin America. The reality of these processess permanently debunked the developmentalism of Euro-American Marxist theory that privileged a model of revolutionary agency stubbornly identified with urban, industrial labor. The cultural and sexual policies of...