...Louise Bethlehem This article sets the itineracy of antiapartheid expressive culture to work in relation to exiled South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba. It revisits accounts of transnational cultural circulation on the part of Rob Nixon, Paul Gilroy, and others to argue that the diffusion...

... TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION Sierra Song E, Marty, and I sat with our noses pressed against the glass Toby Alice straining to see the land as it intermittently appeared and vanished Volkman through the clouds. Almost in a whisper she confided “I think that place right down there may...

...Toby Alice Volkman Duke University Press 2003 Adolfson, Nathan. 1999 . Passing through . 27 min. NAATA. Video. Anagnost, Ann. 2000 . Scenes of misrecognition:Maternal citizenship in the age of transnational adoption. positions 8 : 389 -421. Borshay, Deanne Liem,. 2000 . First...

...David L. Eng David L. Eng 2003 Transnational Adoption and Queer Diasporas Two Mothers David L. Eng Deann Borshay Liem’s 2000 documentary on transnational adoption, First Person Plural...

...Lisa Cartwright Duke University Press 2003 Photographs of “Waiting Children” THE TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION MARKET This essay considers the place of visual media, specifically child portrait Lisa Cartwright...

..., Hispanic, and Asian American perspective. women have long understood: that economic conditions often necessitate the sharing of child-rearing responsibilities with others, preferably with family members. But transnational mothers are living...

...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...

...Rosío Córdova Plaza Duke University Press 2007 Translated by Trudy Balch Sexuality and Gender in Transnational Spaces REALIGNMENTS IN RURAL VERACRUZ FAMILiES DUE...

..., INFORMATION, AND BODY CONSUMPTION IN TRANSNATIONAL EUROPE Introduction C. Nadia...

...Timothy Mitchell; Gyan Prakash; Ella Shohat Introduction PALESTINE IN A TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXT In the three years since the outbreak of the second Intifada in October Timothy...

... and native-born citizens. On the other hand, the presence of Filipinos in America has provided labor in key industries from agriculture to nursing. Filipino America has always been a transnational social formation whose history, economy, and culture reflect the interrelated histories of the Philippines...

... of the daughter by her brothers and fathers through marriage. In both theories, the daughter's exchange is a founding moment in the institution of culture. In this essay, I interrogate the relevance of these paradigms of daughter-exchange to the phenomenon of transnational adoption, where the daughter loses her...

...Sandya Hewamanne The rapid urbanization and industrialization of Katunayake resulting from transnational production at the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) and related globalized sociocultural flows affected the lived experiences of citizens in this new urban space in varied ways. The vast majority of FTZ...

...David Sartorius; Micol Seigel This introduction diagnoses a moment of stark interest in interdependent relations of power, violence, and place. Transnational method, it argues, has welcomed this interest; as one of the sites in which scholars today are attempting to make sense with space...

... and the human as a set of comparative and relational events in specific historical and geopolitical contexts by investigating Euro-American, Chinese, and transnational itineraries of the human. While it analyzes China's potential to undo the universalizing claims of Western idealized norms of the liberal human...

..., Taylor argues that the northern-centrism of both James’s scholarship and postnational American studies more broadly has elided flows of transnational interaction not mediated by the urban North. This elision is complicit with those modernization ideologies that organize both Marxist and non-Marxist...

...Carla Marcantonio Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In is a film whose glossy surface belies its investment in history—cinema’s history, Spain’s history, transnational history. It tracks a correspondence among cinema, transsexuality, and medium specificity through the trope of transgenesis: skin...

... and their elaboration into hierarchies of humanity; and second as a phenomenon of migration and the constitution of transnational sociocultural spheres. Diaspora, thus, generates forms of pan-Africanism and Black consciousness as much as it produces agendas related to transnational governance and global security...

...Ricardo L. Ortíz “On (Our) American Ground” traces the relevant genealogies, and itineraries, of a song and a site whose various symbolic and practical constructions have helped to determine what a transnational American historical past can allow us to imagine of a postnational American future...

... as two distinct strands, my approach endeavors to complicate our understanding of racialization, transnational history, and diaspora by focusing on their participation in this circuit where their professional aspirations overlapped and intersected. Specifically, as a means to discuss the place of Afro...