Transnational Crossroads

Transnational Crossroads
Author: Camilla Fojas
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803240880

The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented migration and interaction for Asian, Latin American, and Pacific Islander cultures in the Americas and the American Pacific. Some of these ethnic groups already had historic ties, but technology, migration, and globalization during the twentieth century brought them into even closer contact. Transnational Crossroads explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950. Through a comparative framework, this volume weaves together narratives of U.S. and Spanish empire, globalization, resistance, and identity, as well as social, labor, and political movements. Contributors examine multiethnic celebrities and key figures, migratory paths, cultural productions, and social and political formations among these three groups. Engaging multiple disciplines and methodologies, these studies of Asian American, Latin American, and Pacific Islander cultural interactions explode traditional notions of ethnic studies and introduce new approaches to transnational and comparative studies of the Americas and the American Pacific.

Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives

Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives
Author: Shane Denson
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-05-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441185755

Written by leading international scholars, this book surveys transnational dimensions of graphic narratives, covering popular comics and graphic novels from the USA, Asia and Europe.

Continental Crossroads

Continental Crossroads
Author: Samuel Truett
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822333890

Focuses on the modern Mexican-American borderlands, where a boundary line seems to separate two dissimilar cultures and economies.

The International Court of Justice at a Crossroads

The International Court of Justice at a Crossroads
Author: Lori Fisler Damrosch
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Total Pages: 554
Release: 1987
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This major study of the International Court of Justice was the first comprehensive analysis of the issues confronting governments in reexamining the scope of their consent to the Court's jurisdiction. Topics include the suitability of various kinds of disputes for resolution by the Court; problems of non-appearance, non-participation, and non-performance; provisional measures; and more.

Saharan Crossroads

Saharan Crossroads
Author: Tara F. Deubel
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2014-06-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443862894

Saharan Crossroads: Exploring Historical, Cultural, and Artistic Linkages between North and West Africa counteracts the traditional scholarly conception of the Sahara Desert as an impenetrable barrier dividing the continent by employing an interdisciplinary lens to examine myriad interconnections between North and West Africa through travel, trade, communication, cultural exchange, and correspondence that have been ongoing for several millennia. Saharan Crossroads offers a unique contribution to existing scholarship on the region by uniting a diverse group of African, European, and American scholars working on various facets of trans-Saharan history, social life, and cultural production, and bringing their work together for the first time. This trilingual volume includes eleven chapters written in English, five chapters in French, and three chapters in Arabic, reflecting the multicultural nature of the Sahara and this international project. Saharan Crossroads explores historical and contemporary connections and exchanges between populations living in and on both sides of the Sahara that have led to the emergence of distinctive cultural and aesthetic expressions. This contact has been fostered by a series of linkages that include the trans-Saharan caravan trade, the spread of Islam, the migration of nomadic pastoralists, and European colonization. The book includes three major sections: (1) history, culture, and identity; (2) trans-Saharan circulation of arts, music, ritual performance, and architecture; and (3) religion, law, language, and writing. While the gaze of international political analysts has turned toward the Sahara to follow problematic developments that pose serious threats to human rights and security in the region, it is especially timely to recall that the people and countries of the Sahelo-Saharan world have maintained long histories of peaceful coexistence, interdependence, and cooperation that are too often overlooked in the present.

Black Cultural Traffic

Black Cultural Traffic
Author: Harry Justin Elam
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2005-12-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0472068407

Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics

Human Rights at the Crossroads

Human Rights at the Crossroads
Author: Mark Goodale
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2013-01-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0195371844

Human Rights at the Crossroads brings together preeminent and emerging voices within human rights studies to think creatively about problems beyond their own disciplines, and to critically respond to what appear to be intractable problems within human rights theory and practice. It provides an integrative and interdisciplinary answer to the existing academic status quo, with broad implications for future theory and practice in all fields dealing with the problems of human rights theory and practice.

American Studies as Transnational Practice

American Studies as Transnational Practice
Author: Yuan Shu
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611688485

This wide-ranging collection brings together an eclectic group of scholars to reflect upon the transnational configurations of the field of American studies and how these have affected its localizations, epistemological perspectives, ecological imaginaries, and politics of translation. The volume elaborates on the causes of the transnational paradigm shift in American studies and describes the material changes that this new paradigm has effected during the past two decades. The contributors hail from a variety of postcolonial, transoceanic, hemispheric, and post-national positions and sensibilities, enabling them to theorize a "crossroads of cultures" explanation of transnational American studies that moves beyond the multicultural studies model. Offering a rich and rewarding mix of essays and case studies, this collection will satisfy a broad range of students and scholars.

Girlhood in the Borderlands

Girlhood in the Borderlands
Author: Lilia Soto
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-07-31
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1479838403

Introduction -- The why of transnational familial formations -- Growing up transnational: Mexican teenage girls and their transnational familial arrangements -- Muchachas Michoacanas: portraits of adolescent girls in a migratory town -- Migration marks: time, waiting, and desires for migration -- The telling moment: pre-crossings of Mexican teenage girls and their journeys to the border -- Imaginaries and realities: encountering the Napa Valley -- Conclusion

America at the Crossroads

America at the Crossroads
Author: Francis Fukuyama
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0300113994

Presents a critique of the Bush Administration's Iraq policy, arguing that it stemmed from misconceptions about the realities of the situation in Iraq and a squandering of the goodwill of American allies following September 11th.