Race and Transnationalism in the Americas

305 Pages·2021·6.363 MB·English

by  Benjamin Bryce (editor), David M. K. Sheinin (editor)

Race and Transnationalism
in the Americas
Pitt Latin American Series
Catherine M. Conaghan, Editor
Race
and Transnationalism
in the Americas
Benjamin Bryce
Edited by
David M. K. Sheinin
and
University of Pittsburgh Press
Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260
Copyright © 2021, University of Pittsburgh Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bryce, Benjamin, editor. | Sheinin, David, editor.
Title: Race and transnationalism in the Americas / edited by Benjamin Bryce
and David M.K. Sheinin.
Description: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. |
Series: Pitt Latin American series | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020053062 | ISBN 9780822946717 (cloth) | ISBN
9780822988168 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: America—Race relations. | Group identity—America. |
Minorities—Race identity—America. | Indigenous peoples—Race
identity—America. | Nationalism—Social aspects—America. |
Transnationalism. | Race.
Classification: LCC E29.A1 R325 2021 | DDC 305.80097—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020053062
Cover art: Ealy Mays, Birth of the Mestizo Warrior. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cover design: Melissa Dias-Mandoly
For Gabriela and Gabriel

Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Toward New Coordinates? 3
Marc Hertzman
Chapter One. Asian Migration, Racial Hierarchies, and Exclusion in
Argentina, 1890–1920 20
Benjamin Bryce
Chapter Two. Intersections, Barriers, and Borders in Gregorio Titiriku’s
Republic of Qullasuyu 37
Waskar Ari-Chachaki
Chapter Three. Race and Political Rights: Constructions of Citizenship
among British Caribbeans inside and outside the British Empire,
1918–1962 56
Lara Putnam
Chapter Four. Crossing the Border at the Primer Congreso Indigenista
Interamericano, 1940 74
Alexander Dawson
Chapter Five. No Place in the Cosmic Race? The False Promises of Mestizaje
and Indigenismo in Postrevolutionary Mexico 91
Stephen Lewis
Chapter Six. Creating False Analogies: Race and Drug Wars 1930s to
1950s 106
Elaine Carey
Chapter Seven. Baseball and the Categorization of Race in
Venezuela 121
David M. K. Sheinin
Chapter Eight. Making Their Own Mahatma: Salvador’s Filhos de Gandhy
and the Local History of a Global Phenomenon 140
Marc Hertzman
Chapter Nine. Reading the Caribbean and United States through
Panamanian reggae en español 159
Sonja Stephenson Watson
Chapter Ten. The Tortuous Road toward the Building of a Mosque
in Buenos Aires: Overcoming Racial Stereotypes under Populist
Governments 177
Raanan Rein
Chapter Eleven. Buried: Race, Photography, and Memory in Damiana
Kryygi 192
Kevin Coleman with Julia Irion Martins
Epilogue. Overcoming the National 214
Benjamin Bryce and David M. K. Sheinin
Notes 221
About the Contributors 285
Index 289
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank our editor, Josh Shanholtzer, for his professional
and generous support throughout this project. It has been a pleasure work-
ing with him. Tulie O’Connor did a wonderful job picking up all sorts of
errors and polishing the text in the copyediting stage. Many others behind
the scenes at the University of Pittsburgh Press did an excellent job turning
this manuscript into a book, and for all of their help we are very thankful.
Two peer reviewers offered very helpful suggestions on all of the chapters.
Chapter 3, written by Lara Putnam, appeared in a different form in the
Journal of British Studies (2014). We would like to thank the editors of the
Journal of British Studies for allowing us to publish a revised version in this
volume.
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