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Comparativism, Ethnicity and the United States: A Diasporic History of the Americas

WHILE MANY PRACTITIONERS OF AMERICAN STUDIES EXPRESS THE importance of rethinking the nation-state and its basic social constructions by recasting our object of study as "the Americas," there remains a series of divides between U.S.-based and Latin American and Caribbean projects, ethnic studies and works on imperialism, and scholarship on race and other social formations. This impasse emerges from the curious simultaneity of the theoretical excesses of transnationalism and a scholarly timidity around different standards for research. How exciting, then, to read Rachel Buff's new book, Immigration and the Political Economy of Home, which offers a fruitful, if unexpected, juxtaposition of West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis to create a point of entry into the very question of how we might devise new projects on "the Americas" that are intrinsically transnational and transcultural. In exploring the construction of social formations in two different U.S. urban spaces, Buff establishes a refreshingly expansive geography for the production of migrant identity. In some ways an account of multiple yet symbolically connected pan-ethnicities, this book specifically illuminates the significance of borders in everyday cultural