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This collection of essays provides both critical and interdisciplinary means for thinking across diasporic travels within the Portuguese experience and its intersection with other peoples and cultures. The chapters are organized into four sections and offer rich, diverse, and insightful studies that provide a conceptualization of the Portuguese diaspora.

This book explores the profound social, cultural, and political changes that affected the way in which Canadians and Australians defined themselves as a "people" from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s.

Invisible in Plain Sight: Self-Determination Strategies of Free Blacks in the Old Northwest provides a rare detailed examination of an often overlooked piece of the American tapestry, the Land Act of 1820.

Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup identifies elements of an emerging Portuguese American culture in the United States.

There's No Word for SAUDADE contains twenty-one essays aimed at a readership interested in cultural and historical materials, including those relate to Portuguese America.

The Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji is a collection of scholarly articles that engages with, analyzes, and appreciatively critiques the fiction and nonfiction writing of M. G. Vassanji, a multiple award-winning author.

This book is collection of essays that provide a writer's perspective on issues of South Asian Literature, linguistics, poetry and views of political events and globalization.

Este libro explora la dinámica de los movimientos sociales garífunas y su migración transnacional entre Honduras y la ciudad de Nueva York. Como pueblo afroindígena con comunidades en cinco estados-nación, los garífunas son ejemplares de las formas complejas cómo las ideas de raza, etnia y nación configuran condiciones de trabajo, identidades, formas de discriminación, así como formas de resistencia y movimientos económicos, políticos y sociales en el espacio transnacional. Basado en el trabajo de campo realizado en la década de 1990, el libro muestra cómo el pueblo garífuna problematiza los modelos de inmigración unilineal y asimilacionista, mediante la vinculación de sus aldeas centroamericanas con ciudades globales como Nueva York a través de la circulación constante de bienes, miembros de la familia, dinero e ideas, lo que forma una comunidad en el espacio transnacional. Sin embargo, el libro también da a conocer que las comunidades transnacionales garífunas enfrentan muchos desafíos para su supervivencia bajo los modelos de desarrollo neoliberal en Honduras que amenazan sus tierras, supervivencia económica y derechos políticos; la división racial de trabajo en los Estados Unidos, la cual los margina como pobres, inmigrantes, afrolatinos; y el racismo que experimentan como sujetos indígenas, negros y latinos a lo ancho y largo de su diáspora. El libro es una fuente excelente de investigación para toda persona interesada en el pueblo garífuna, los afro-latinos, la raza y racismo en Centroamérica, los movimientos sociales étnicos en contra del nacionalismo mestizo y de los modelos de desarrollo neoliberal, la migración transnacional, los latinos en la ciudad de Nueva York; y los efectos de los cambios en la política de inmigración de los Estados Unidos sobre los pueblos de América Central en el siglo XX. El libro expone la situación de los garífunas en Honduras en la década de 1990, antes de la crisis de la violencia y la migración masiva que empezaron a experimentar en el siglo XXI.

American Studies Over_Seas I: Narrating Multiple America(s) is a contribution to the ongoing debate in the field of American Studies in its most recent turn-Transnational American Studies-a paradigm shift in the discipline which runs counter to a consensus version of U.S. history and culture. The essays highlight the dissenting narratives in the study of "America" as a mindscape, multivocal and varied in its discourses of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. They also evidence the interrelation of the United States with Europe and examine how society, history, literature, and art intersect, providing alternative ways to comprehend the current geopolitical and cultural mindset on both sides of the Atlantic. These are interdisciplinary and diverse texts, authored by both senior leading scholars and promising younger researchers.The volume will benefit students and scholars of international American Studies, interdisciplinary and multicultural studies in history, sociology, modern languages literatures and cultures, cultural studies, comparative literatures, identity and ethnic studies, among others. It will also be of interest to researchers of American studies, transatlantic and transoceanic studies, diasporas and related fields of history, literature, art, and politics, as well as to the general reader with a background in the social sciences and the humanities.

(Multi)Vocal Exchanges Across the Ocean is the second volume of the project American Studies Over_Seas, an edited collection of texts honoring two pioneering Portuguese scholars in American literature and culture. Devoted to relations between Portugal and the United States, it includes essays by leading scholars whose research illuminates the multifarious ways in which history, sociology and literature intersect. A special feature of this collection is the inclusion of creative writing pieces that provide an imaginative intellectual backdrop to the transnational turn in American Studies. The literary contributions focus on diasporic experiences, dramatizing issues of ethnicity, identity, and interculturality. The essays of a more personal nature highlight the career of the two honorees, discuss protocols involving academic exchanges, and showcase dialogues between Europe and America over the past 30 years. Of benefit to the academic and the interested reader, this volume enriches the metaphor of the Atlantic Ocean as a space not only of struggle but also of ongoing conversation.

American Murids is a major new ethnography of an African Sufi Muslim immigrant community in the United States. It is particularly timely given the current contentious discourse concerning Muslims and immigration. By listening to what Murids say about themselves, author Jonathan Bornman gives us the first ever look at how the spiritual and ethical values of Murids in the diaspora influence the ways they interact with other communities in New York City.No other religious group in West Africa has generated more scholarship than the Muridiyya of Senegal. Much of this literature has focused on history, social and political science, economics, migration, and transnationality. This book offers a fresh look by using the lens of nonviolence, revealing the Murid commitment to shared peace. The discovery of a transnational Murid youth movement in New York City, balancing tradition and new expressions of faith, points towards the emergence of an American Muridiyya.