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Race and Transnationalism in the Americas Pitt Latin American Series Catherine M. Conaghan, Editor Race and Transnationalism in the Americas Benjamin Bryce Edited by David M. K. Sheinin and University of Pittsburgh Press Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260 Copyright © 2021, University of Pittsburgh Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bryce, Benjamin, editor. | Sheinin, David, editor. Title: Race and transnationalism in the Americas / edited by Benjamin Bryce and David M.K. Sheinin. Description: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. | Series: Pitt Latin American series | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020053062 | ISBN 9780822946717 (cloth) | ISBN 9780822988168 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: America—Race relations. | Group identity—America. | Minorities—Race identity—America. | Indigenous peoples—Race identity—America. | Nationalism—Social aspects—America. | Transnationalism. | Race. Classification: LCC E29.A1 R325 2021 | DDC 305.80097—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020053062 Cover art: Ealy Mays, Birth of the Mestizo Warrior. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Cover design: Melissa Dias-Mandoly For Gabriela and Gabriel Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Toward New Coordinates? 3 Marc Hertzman Chapter One. Asian Migration, Racial Hierarchies, and Exclusion in Argentina, 1890–1920 20 Benjamin Bryce Chapter Two. Intersections, Barriers, and Borders in Gregorio Titiriku’s Republic of Qullasuyu 37 Waskar Ari-Chachaki Chapter Three. Race and Political Rights: Constructions of Citizenship among British Caribbeans inside and outside the British Empire, 1918–1962 56 Lara Putnam Chapter Four. Crossing the Border at the Primer Congreso Indigenista Interamericano, 1940 74 Alexander Dawson Chapter Five. No Place in the Cosmic Race? The False Promises of Mestizaje and Indigenismo in Postrevolutionary Mexico 91 Stephen Lewis Chapter Six. Creating False Analogies: Race and Drug Wars 1930s to 1950s 106 Elaine Carey Chapter Seven. Baseball and the Categorization of Race in Venezuela 121 David M. K. Sheinin Chapter Eight. Making Their Own Mahatma: Salvador’s Filhos de Gandhy and the Local History of a Global Phenomenon 140 Marc Hertzman Chapter Nine. Reading the Caribbean and United States through Panamanian reggae en español 159 Sonja Stephenson Watson Chapter Ten. The Tortuous Road toward the Building of a Mosque in Buenos Aires: Overcoming Racial Stereotypes under Populist Governments 177 Raanan Rein Chapter Eleven. Buried: Race, Photography, and Memory in Damiana Kryygi 192 Kevin Coleman with Julia Irion Martins Epilogue. Overcoming the National 214 Benjamin Bryce and David M. K. Sheinin Notes 221 About the Contributors 285 Index 289 viii Acknowledgments We would like to thank our editor, Josh Shanholtzer, for his professional and generous support throughout this project. It has been a pleasure work- ing with him. Tulie O’Connor did a wonderful job picking up all sorts of errors and polishing the text in the copyediting stage. Many others behind the scenes at the University of Pittsburgh Press did an excellent job turning this manuscript into a book, and for all of their help we are very thankful. Two peer reviewers offered very helpful suggestions on all of the chapters. Chapter 3, written by Lara Putnam, appeared in a different form in the Journal of British Studies (2014). We would like to thank the editors of the Journal of British Studies for allowing us to publish a revised version in this volume. ix
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