Format:
1 online resource (368 pages)
ISBN:
9780813055039
Content:
Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, an influx of Europeans, Asians, and Arabic speakers indelibly changed the face of Latin America. While many studies of this period focus on why the immigrants came to the region, this volume addresses how the newcomers helped construct national identities in the Caribbean, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. In these essays, some of the most respected scholars of migration history examine the range of responses--some welcoming, some xenophobic--to the newcomers. They also look at the lasting effects that Jewish, German, Chinese, Italian, and Syrian immigrants had on the economic, sociocultural, and political institutions. These explorations of assimilation, race formation, and transnationalism enrich our understanding not only of migration to Latin America but also of the impact of immigration on the construction of national identity throughout the world.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reconceptualizing Diasporas and National Identities in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1850-1950 -- Migrations to Latin America and the Caribbean, 1850-1950 -- Migration Studies and Theories of Nationalism -- Interactions between Transnational Migrations and Constructions of National Identities in Latin America -- Diaspora Nationalisms and Homeland Relations -- Migrations and Comparison -- Notes -- Part I: Spaces of Migration -- 1. Migrants, Nations, and Empires in Transition: Native Claims in the Greater Caribbean, 1850s-1930s -- A Region Remade: Islands and Rimlands as the Spanish Empire Receded and U.S. Dominion Expanded, 1850s-1900s -- The Heyday of Labor Migration, 1900s-1920s -- The Temptation of Anti-Asian Demagoguery: 1900s-1920s -- The Interwar Rise of Restrictionist Regimes: The Geopolitics and Labor Politics of Biopolitics -- The "Blaze of Nationalism" among British West Indians at Home and Abroad -- Nativism without Populism: The British Caribbean, 1920s-1930s -- Anti-Immigrant Action, Return Migration, and the Dawn of New Nations, 1930s-1950s -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 2. The Limits of the Cosmic Race: Immigrant and Nation in Mexico, 1850-1950 -- A Nation of Spaniards, "Indians," and Mestizos -- "Whitening" the Mestizo Nation? -- Revolutionary Nationalism and the Closing of the "Cosmic Race" -- Notes -- 3. Immigration, Identity, and Nationalism in Argentina, 1850-1950 -- The Nineteenth-Century Background -- Immigrants at Last -- Identity and Immigration in the Post-1930 Period -- Notes -- 4. Nation and Migration: German-Speaking and Japanese Immigrants in Brazil, 1850-1945 -- Mass Immigration to Brazil, 1850-1945 -- Whitening the Nation -- "Germanness" in Brazil -- The Japanese in Brazil.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813060002
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780813060002
Language:
English
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