Borderland on the Isthmus: the changing boundaries and frontiers of the Panama Canal Zone -- Race and identity in the Zone-Panama borderland: Zonians Uber Alles -- Race and identity in the zone-Panama borderland: West Indians contra todos -- Desire, sexuality, and gender in the Zone-Panama borderland -- The U.S. Military: armed guardians of the borderland -- "Injuring the power system": crime and resistance in the borderland -- The Zone-Panama borderland and the complexity of U.S. Empire.
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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 respo.
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MIL
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Borderland on the isthmus.
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9780822356783
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HISTORY / Latin America / Central America
HISTORY-- Latin America-- Mexico.
Race relations.
Social conditions
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Panama Canal (Panama), Race relations, 20th century.
Panama Canal (Panama), Social conditions, 20th century.