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The Radical History Review is soliciting scholarship and critical essays for the thematic issue entitled "Our Americas: Political and Cultural Imaginings," to appear in Spring, 2004. This issue utilizes the organizing theme (and problematic) of the "Americas," Jose Martí's utopian vision of a transnational, multicultural, and anti-imperialist political world. In moving beyond the bifurcating paradigms of Latin American area studies and American (US-based) studies, this issue of RHR will examine relationships among North American, Latin American, Caribbean and other island societies and cultures, including histories of colonization, slavery, migration, capitalist development, and nation-state formation.
In particular, we aim to revisit the significance of nationalism as both a progressive and reactionary force in articulating oppositional projects such as abolition, anti-colonialism, the non-aligned movement, leftist revolutions as well as in recent economic and political plans of late capitalism and their effects. We are interested in how transnational formations of diaspora, feminism, sexuality, and class are imbricated in processes of state-building and regionalism. This issue of RHR also seeks to problematize dichotomous black-white constructions of race, since experiences of Africans, Asians, Native Americans, Spanish descendants, and mixed peoples have all constructed the social landscape of the Americas.
We welcome a broad and interdisciplinary interpretation of these themes. Papers on the histories and cultures of Cuba seem particularly pertinent, as would those on the Philippines and Puerto Rico. We likewise seek works on the multiple constructions of race, gender, sexuality and radical politics across the Americas, on US-Latin America relationships, on transnational intellectual currents, and on film and art. Given the diverse format of the RHR, we are also interested in shorter pieces on how to contribute to a teaching curriculum on "the Americas," on public art and history that strives to come to terms with any of the questions posed above, and on recent books on this subject. Lastly, we are looking for scholars interested in commenting on the significance of Jose Martí's essay "Our America" for a range of political and intellectual projects.
Send hard-copy manuscripts and your contact information to:
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