Teaching and Studying the Americas

1. Introduction
Caroline F. Levander, Anthony B. Pinn, Michael O. Emerson

Part 1. Locating and Dislocating the Americas

2. Good Neighbor/Bad Neighbor: Boltonian Americanism and Hemispheric Studies
Antonio Barrenechea

3. Bad Neighbor/Good Neighbor: Across the Disciplines toward Hemispheric Studies
Caroline F. Levander

4. Coloniality at Large: The Western Hemisphere and the Colonial Horizon of Modernity
Walter D. Mignolo

Part 2. Disciplining Hemispheric Studies

5. A Major Motion Picture: Studying and Teaching the Americas
Michael O. Emerson

6. Embodied Meaning: The “Look” and “Location” of Religion in the American Hemisphere
Anthony B. Pinn

7. Primeval Whiteness: White Supremacists, (Latin) American History, and the Trans-American Challenge to Critical Race Studies
Ruth Hill

8. The Making of “Americans”: Old Boundaries, New Realities
Karen Manges Douglas, Rogelio Saenz

9. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the History of the Western Hemisphere
Moramay López-Alonso

Part 3. Programs and Pedagogy

10. Beyond National Borders: Researching and Teaching Jovita González
Heather Miner, Robin Sager

11. Migrant Archives: New Routes in and out of American Studies
Rodrigo Lazo

12. Partnering Across the Americas: Crossing National and Disciplinary Borders in Archival Development
Melissa Bailar

13. Ghosts of the American Century: The Intellectual, Programmatic, and Institutional Challenges for Transnational/Hemispheric American Studies
Deborah Cohn, Matthew Pratt Guterl

Keywords: Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Latin American Culture, Curriculum Studies, Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy, Geology