• Producing place: Colonialism and governance in the early modern Caribbean
• Place
• Modern Space
• City
• Empire's end
• North Americans in Havana
• Conclusion: Across the Atlantic and back.

This is one of the earliest and most important port cities in the New World, Havana quickly became a model for the planning and construction of other colonial cities. Beyond the Walled City tells the story of how Havana was conceived, built, and managed. Examining imperial efforts to police urban space from the late sixteenth century onward, Guadalupe Garcia shows how the production of urban space was explicitly centered on the politics of racial exclusion and social control. Connecting colonial governing practices to broader debates on urbanization, the regulation of public spaces, and the racial dislocation of urban populations, Beyond the Walled City points to the ways in which colonialism is inscribed on modern topographies.
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• Note on language and terminology
• Introduction: Aliens and the nation
• Part 1. Coolies and contracts, 1847-1874
• Contested sovereignties : coolies on the high seas
• Contracting freedom
• Part 2. Clandestine crossings and the production of illegal aliens, 1882-1900
• The rights of man and of the citizen, 1882-1900
• The immigration bureaucracy and the production of illegal aliens
• Clandestine crossings to the United States
• Part 3. Competing revolutionary nationalisms, 1900-1940
• Revolutionary nationalism and xenophobia
• Chinese diasporic networks
• Epilogue.

In this sweeping work, Elliott Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the "coolie" trade and ending during World War II. The Chinese came as laborers, streaming across borders legally and illegally and working jobs few others wanted, from constructing railroads in California to harvesting sugar cane in Cuba. Though nations were built in part from their labor, Young argues that they were the first group of migrants to bear the stigma of being "alien." Being neither black nor white and existing outside of the nineteenth century Western norms of sexuality and gender, the Chinese were viewed as permanent outsiders, culturally and legally. It was their presence that hastened the creation of immigration bureaucracies charged with capture, imprisonment, and deportation.This book is the first transnational history of Chinese migration to the Americas. By focusing on the fluidity and complexity of border crossings throughout the Western Hemisphere, Young shows us how Chinese migrants constructed alternative communities and identities through these transnational pathways.
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• Josephine Baker : colonial woman
• Dancing dissidents and dissident dancers : the urban topography of race
• A Black colony? : race and the origins of anti-imperialism
• Reverse exoticism and masculinity : the cultural politics of race relations
• In Black and White : women, La depêche Africaine, and the print culture of the diaspora
• "These men's minor transgressions" : White Frenchwomen on colonialism and feminism.

World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes, both metropolitan and overseas. Neither group, however, was willing to be discarded. Between the world wars, the mesmerizing capital of France's colonial empire attracted denizens from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Paris became not merely their home but also a site for political engagement. Colonial Metropolis tells the story of the interactions and connections of these black colonial migrant.

• Hemispheric Jamestown / Anna Brickhouse
• Hemispheric genealogies of "race" : creolization and the cultural geography of colonial difference across the eighteenth-century Americas / Ralph Bauer
• "Famosa Filadelfia" : the hemispheric American city and constitutional debates / Rodrigo Lazo
• Other country : Mexico, the United States, and the gothic history of conquest / Jesse Alemán
• American Mediterranean : Haiti, Cuba, and the American South / Matthew Pratt Guterl
• Expropriating the Great South and exporting "local color" : global and hemispheric imaginaries of the of the first reconstruction / Jennifer Rae Greeson
• Mercurial space of "Central" America : New Orleans, Honduras, and the writing of the Banana Republic / Kirsten Silva Gruesz
• "I'm the everybody who's nobody" : genealogies of the New World slave in Paul Robeson's performances of the 1930s / Michelle A. Stephens
• Promises and perils of U.S. African American hemispherism : Latin America in Martin Delany's Blake and Gayl Jones's Mosquito / Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo
• PEN and the sword : U.S.-Latin American cultural diplomacy and the 1966 PEN Club Congress / Deborah Cohn
• Hemispheric routes of "El Nuevo Arte Nuestro" : the Pan American Union, cultural policy, and the Cold War / Claire F. Fox
• Memín Pinguín, rumba, and racism : Afro-Mexicans in classic comics and film / Robert McKee Irwin
• "Out of this world" : Islamic irruptions in the literary Americas / Timothy Marr
• Of hemispheres and other spheres : navigating Karen Tei Yamashitaʹs literary world / Kandice Chuh
• Northern borderlands and Latino Canadian diaspora / Rachel Adams
• Afterword : the times of hemispheric studies / Susan Gillman.

This landmark collection brings together a range of exciting new comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. Scholars working in the fields of Latin American studies, Asian American studies, American studies, American literature, African Diaspora studies, and comparative literature address the urgent question of how scholars might reframe disciplinary boundaries within the broad area of what is generally called American studies. With essays that examine stamps, cartoons, novels, film, art, music, travel documents, and governmental publications, Hemispheric American Studies.