Brian D. Behnken is an associate professor in the Department of History and U.S. Latino/a Studies Program at Iowa State University. Simon Wendt is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

These essays document the creation, contestation, and dynamic nature of borders, belonging, and identity during the explosively transnational 20th century. Behnken (Iowa State Univ.) and Wendt (Univ. of Frankfort, Germany) add to their extensive publishing record on the modern history of race and civil rights by assembling 14 essays written by authors whose experiences fittingly cross national, ethnic, and disciplinary boundaries. The essays satisfyingly stay anchored to the overriding sociospatial/identity politics dialectic, but each ventures into its own waters enough to incite readers to explore more of the topic. Eight essays deal with Latin American and African/African American examples, while three essays concern Asia, two pieces are on Europe, and one focuses on the discursive and imagined boundaries of homosexuality. Although the essays span the globe and the century, there are many interesting subthemes that weave through the book—expanding national identity to include minority voices, reimagining the past for contemporary political control, and navigating the frontier of imagined boundaries, to name a few. Scholars and students in the social sciences with interests in transnationalism, nation building, or identity politics will find this to be a thought-provoking treat. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates to faculty.

• Introduction: Hybrid National Belonging and Identity in a Transnational Worldby Simon Wendt and Brian D. BehnkenChapter 1. Politics of Belonging on a Caribbean Borderland: The Colombian Islands of San Andrés and Providenceby Sharika CrawfordChapter 2. "To the Reconciliation of All Dominicans": The Transnational Trials of Dominican Exiles in the Trujillo Eraby Charlton YinglingChapter 3. Mexico's American/America's Mexican: Cross-border Flows of Nationalism and Culture between the United States and Mexicoby Brian D. BehnkenChapter 4. Nuestro USA?: Latino/as Making Home and Reimagining Nation in the Heartlandby Marta Maria MaldonadoChapter 5. Imperial Citizenship and the Origins of South African Nationalismby Charles V. ReedChapter 6. "An African Nation in the Western Hemisphere": The New Afrikan Independence Movement and Black Transnational Revolutionary Nationalismby Paul KarolczykChapter 7. Transnational Ethnic Identities and Garinagu Political Organizations in the Diasporaby Doris GarciaChapter 8. Avoiding Vagabond Nationality: The Emergence of Ivoirité in 1990s Côte d'Ivoireby Karen MorrisChapter 9. Russians in Manchuria: From Imperial to National Identity in a Colonial and Semi-Colonial Spaceby Frank GrünerChapter 10. Japan's Race War: Transnational Dimensions of the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, 1942-1945by David C. EarhartChapter 11. Creating a European Constitutional Monarchy for Afghanistan: The Transnational Dynamics of Afghanistan's Constitutional Periodby Kristina BensonChapter 12. "So Tired of Playing the Parts I Had to Play": Anna May Wong and German Orientalism in the Weimar Republicby Pablo DominguezChapter 13. About "Thunderstorms of History" and a Society in Crisis: Transnationalizing the Study of Ethnic Nationalism in Southeastern Europeby Nenad StefanovChapter 14. Beyond the Straight State: On the Borderlands of Sexuality, Ethnicity, and Nation in the United States and Europeby Kevin S. Amidon

Brian D. Behnken is an associate professor in the Department of History and U.S. Latino/a Studies Program at Iowa State University. Simon Wendt is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

These essays document the creation, contestation, and dynamic nature of borders, belonging, and identity during the explosively transnational 20th century. Behnken (Iowa State Univ.) and Wendt (Univ. of Frankfort, Germany) add to their extensive publishing record on the modern history of race and civil rights by assembling 14 essays written by authors whose experiences fittingly cross national, ethnic, and disciplinary boundaries. The essays satisfyingly stay anchored to the overriding sociospatial/identity politics dialectic, but each ventures into its own waters enough to incite readers to explore more of the topic. Eight essays deal with Latin American and African/African American examples, while three essays concern Asia, two pieces are on Europe, and one focuses on the discursive and imagined boundaries of homosexuality. Although the essays span the globe and the century, there are many interesting subthemes that weave through the book—expanding national identity to include minority voices, reimagining the past for contemporary political control, and navigating the frontier of imagined boundaries, to name a few. Scholars and students in the social sciences with interests in transnationalism, nation building, or identity politics will find this to be a thought-provoking treat. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates to faculty.

• Introduction: Hybrid National Belonging and Identity in a Transnational Worldby Simon Wendt and Brian D. BehnkenChapter 1. Politics of Belonging on a Caribbean Borderland: The Colombian Islands of San Andrés and Providenceby Sharika CrawfordChapter 2. "To the Reconciliation of All Dominicans": The Transnational Trials of Dominican Exiles in the Trujillo Eraby Charlton YinglingChapter 3. Mexico's American/America's Mexican: Cross-border Flows of Nationalism and Culture between the United States and Mexicoby Brian D. BehnkenChapter 4. Nuestro USA?: Latino/as Making Home and Reimagining Nation in the Heartlandby Marta Maria MaldonadoChapter 5. Imperial Citizenship and the Origins of South African Nationalismby Charles V. ReedChapter 6. "An African Nation in the Western Hemisphere": The New Afrikan Independence Movement and Black Transnational Revolutionary Nationalismby Paul KarolczykChapter 7. Transnational Ethnic Identities and Garinagu Political Organizations in the Diasporaby Doris GarciaChapter 8. Avoiding Vagabond Nationality: The Emergence of Ivoirité in 1990s Côte d'Ivoireby Karen MorrisChapter 9. Russians in Manchuria: From Imperial to National Identity in a Colonial and Semi-Colonial Spaceby Frank GrünerChapter 10. Japan's Race War: Transnational Dimensions of the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, 1942-1945by David C. EarhartChapter 11. Creating a European Constitutional Monarchy for Afghanistan: The Transnational Dynamics of Afghanistan's Constitutional Periodby Kristina BensonChapter 12. "So Tired of Playing the Parts I Had to Play": Anna May Wong and German Orientalism in the Weimar Republicby Pablo DominguezChapter 13. About "Thunderstorms of History" and a Society in Crisis: Transnationalizing the Study of Ethnic Nationalism in Southeastern Europeby Nenad StefanovChapter 14. Beyond the Straight State: On the Borderlands of Sexuality, Ethnicity, and Nation in the United States and Europeby Kevin S. Amidon

Brian D. Behnken is an associate professor in the Department of History and U.S. Latino/a Studies Program at Iowa State University. Simon Wendt is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

These essays document the creation, contestation, and dynamic nature of borders, belonging, and identity during the explosively transnational 20th century. Behnken (Iowa State Univ.) and Wendt (Univ. of Frankfort, Germany) add to their extensive publishing record on the modern history of race and civil rights by assembling 14 essays written by authors whose experiences fittingly cross national, ethnic, and disciplinary boundaries. The essays satisfyingly stay anchored to the overriding sociospatial/identity politics dialectic, but each ventures into its own waters enough to incite readers to explore more of the topic. Eight essays deal with Latin American and African/African American examples, while three essays concern Asia, two pieces are on Europe, and one focuses on the discursive and imagined boundaries of homosexuality. Although the essays span the globe and the century, there are many interesting subthemes that weave through the book—expanding national identity to include minority voices, reimagining the past for contemporary political control, and navigating the frontier of imagined boundaries, to name a few. Scholars and students in the social sciences with interests in transnationalism, nation building, or identity politics will find this to be a thought-provoking treat. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates to faculty.

• Introduction: Hybrid National Belonging and Identity in a Transnational Worldby Simon Wendt and Brian D. BehnkenChapter 1. Politics of Belonging on a Caribbean Borderland: The Colombian Islands of San Andrés and Providenceby Sharika CrawfordChapter 2. "To the Reconciliation of All Dominicans": The Transnational Trials of Dominican Exiles in the Trujillo Eraby Charlton YinglingChapter 3. Mexico's American/America's Mexican: Cross-border Flows of Nationalism and Culture between the United States and Mexicoby Brian D. BehnkenChapter 4. Nuestro USA?: Latino/as Making Home and Reimagining Nation in the Heartlandby Marta Maria MaldonadoChapter 5. Imperial Citizenship and the Origins of South African Nationalismby Charles V. ReedChapter 6. "An African Nation in the Western Hemisphere": The New Afrikan Independence Movement and Black Transnational Revolutionary Nationalismby Paul KarolczykChapter 7. Transnational Ethnic Identities and Garinagu Political Organizations in the Diasporaby Doris GarciaChapter 8. Avoiding Vagabond Nationality: The Emergence of Ivoirité in 1990s Côte d'Ivoireby Karen MorrisChapter 9. Russians in Manchuria: From Imperial to National Identity in a Colonial and Semi-Colonial Spaceby Frank GrünerChapter 10. Japan's Race War: Transnational Dimensions of the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, 1942-1945by David C. EarhartChapter 11. Creating a European Constitutional Monarchy for Afghanistan: The Transnational Dynamics of Afghanistan's Constitutional Periodby Kristina BensonChapter 12. "So Tired of Playing the Parts I Had to Play": Anna May Wong and German Orientalism in the Weimar Republicby Pablo DominguezChapter 13. About "Thunderstorms of History" and a Society in Crisis: Transnationalizing the Study of Ethnic Nationalism in Southeastern Europeby Nenad StefanovChapter 14. Beyond the Straight State: On the Borderlands of Sexuality, Ethnicity, and Nation in the United States and Europeby Kevin S. Amidon