Explores why author-activists in the United States, Cuba, and Mexico defined their local struggles in relation to broader hemispheric and diasporic movements against imperialism and racial oppression.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Waves of Decolonization and Discourses of Hemispheric Citizenship 1
1. "White Slaves" and the "Arrogant Mestiza": Reconfiguring Whiteness in The Squatter and the Don and Ramona 35
2. "The Coming Unities" in "Our America": Decolonization and Anticolonial Messianism in Martí, De Bois, and the Santa de Cabora 67
3. Transnationalisms against the State: Contesting Neocolonialism in the Harlem Renaissance, Cuban Negrismo, and Mexican Indigenismo 147
4. "Rising Tides of Color": Ethnography and Theories of Race and Migration in Boas, Park, Gamio, and Hurston 202
Coda. Waves of Decolonization and Discourses of Hemispheric Citizenship 241
Notes 245
References 301
Index 329

David Luis-Brown is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English at Claremont Graduate University.