Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico

by José David Saldívar

A founder of U.S.-Mexico border studies, José David Saldívar is a leading figure in efforts to expand the scope of American studies. In Trans-Americanity , he advances that critical project by arguing for a transnational, antinational, and "outernational" paradigm for American studies. Saldívar urges Americanists to adopt a world-system scale of analysis. "Americanity as a Concept," an essay by the Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano and Immanuel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822350831
• ISBN13: 9780822350835
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"