Selfa Chew: 3 books
Dialogues across Diasporas
Women Writers, Scholars, and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration...
Uprooting Community
Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Joining the U.S.’ war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel Ávila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and approved the creation of internment camps and zones of confinement. Under this relocation program, a new pro-American nationalism developed in Mexico that scripted...
Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America
Trauma, Politics, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America isa collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain and Latin America. The essays here focus on a variety of forms of memory—from the most concrete to...