Teaching and Studying the Americas

ANTHONY B. PINN Agnes Arnold Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Religion, and Director of Graduate Studies in Religion at Rice University, USA.   CAROLINE F. LEVANDER Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University, USA.   MICHAEL O. EMERSON Allyn and Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Race, Religion, and Urban Life at Rice University, USA.

• Introduction; A.Byrd, M.Emerson, C.Levander  & A.B.Pinn PART I: LOCATING AND DISLOCATING THE AMERICAS Good Neighbor/Bad Neighbor: Boltonian Americanism and Hemispheric Studies; A.Barrenechea Bad Neighbor/Good Neighbor: Across the Disciplines Toward a Hemispheric Studies;  C.Levander Coloniality at Large: The Western Hemisphere and the Colonial Horizon of Modernity; W.Mignolo PART II: DISCIPLINING HEMISPHERIC STUDIES A Major Motion Picture: Studying and Teaching the Americas; M.O.Emerson Embodied Meaning: The 'Look' and 'Location' of Religion in the American Hemisphere; A.B.Pinn Primeval Whiteness: White Supremacies, (Latin) American History, and the Transamerican Challenge to Critical Race Studies; R.Hill The Making of 'Americans': Old Boundaries, New Realities; K.Manges Douglas  & R.Saenz Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the History of the Western Hemisphere; M.López-Alonso PART III: PROGRAMS AND PEDAGOGY Beyond National Borders: Researching and Teaching Jovita González; H.Miner  & R.Sager Migrant Archives: New Routes In and Out of American Studies; R.Lazo Partnering Across the Americas: Crossing National and Disciplinary Borders in Archival Development; M.Bailar Ghosts of the American Century: The Intellectual, Programmatic and Institutional Challenges for Transnational/Hemispheric American Studies; M.Guterl  & D.Cohn