Borderland on the Isthmus

Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone

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Michael E Donoghue

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American Encounters/Global Interactions

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The construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this lively and provocative social history, Michael E. Donoghue positions the Panama Canal Zone as an imperial borderland where U.S. power, culture, and ideology were projected and contested. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, Donoghue details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Panamanians responded to U.S. occupation with proclamations, protests, and everyday forms of resistance and acquiescence. Although U.S. "Zonians" and military personnel stigmatized Panamanians as racial inferiors, they also sought them out for service labor, contraband, sexual pleasure, and marriage. The Canal Zone, he concludes, reproduced classic colonial hierarchies of race, national identity, and gender, establishing a model for other U.S. bases and imperial outposts around the globe.

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Michael E. Donoghue is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University.

Release date Australia

May 9th, 2014

Author

Michael E Donoghue

Audience

Professional & Vocational

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21 photographs, 1 table, 3 maps

Pages

368

Series

American Encounters/Global Interactions

Dimensions

157x234x25

ISBN-13

9780822356660

Product ID

21902859

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