...This chapter tells a story that focuses on the role of Haiti in the political careers of John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams. We offer students and instructors insight into the importance of Haiti in the political imaginary and foreign policy of the first four decades of U.S. history. Thanks...

...The introduction illustrates how the articulation of race, language, and nation is problematic within Panamanian literary discourse because it is tied to a national imaginary that emphasizes Panamanian nationality and Spanish heritage. National rhetoric coupled with mestizaje...

... “project a queered imaginary of Cuban and Puerto Rican imaginaries” by decentering the Hispanophile and Creolist definitions of national identity, highlighting the black and mulatto elements of that identity, and creating Asian and queer characters as emblematic of the Hispanic Caribbean. In many ways...

... this colonization process is understood in the indigenous historical imaginary today, and the concrete meanings that the Chané ascribe to their land. Campo Durán Argentina Chané people Aguaragüe mountain range Andean foothills Andean Yungas Bermejo River Buenos Aires Argentina and Franciscans Chaco Plain...

...Chapter 6 addresses Werowocomoco’s archaeological and ethnohistorical records as well as the town’s role in the Virginia Algonquian spatial imaginary. Shortly after its establishment as a town circa A.D. 1200, Werowocomoco’s residents reconfigured the settlement’s spaces, constructing a residential...