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10%OFFDavid Luis-Brown - Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States - 9780822343660 - V9780822343660
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Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States

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Description for Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States Paperback. Explores how author-activists in the United States, Cuba, and Mexico defined their local struggles Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH; HBJK; HBTQ; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
In Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown reveals how between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization, of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. They did so decades before the decolonization of Africa and Asia in the mid-twentieth century. Analyzing the work of nationalist leaders, novelists, and social scientists, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Jose Marti, Claude McKay, Luis-Brown brings together an array of thinkers who linked local struggles against racial oppression and imperialism to similar struggles in other nations. With discourses and practices of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
New Americanists
Condition
New
Weight
498g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822343660
SKU
V9780822343660
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About David Luis-Brown
David Luis-Brown is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English at Claremont Graduate University.

Reviews for Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States
This insightful study uses a much-needed hemispheric approach to track the listed groups' reaction to the imperial whirlwind. Meticulously researched and documented, the book presents a literary-historical analysis covering the period from the 1880s to the 1930s. . . . In Waves of Decolonization, Luis-Brown has woven a rich tapestry of the anticolonial and anti-imperial discourse that accompanied the consolidation ... Read more

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