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Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone

Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone

Donoghue, Michael E.

Paperback

Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions

20th Century United States HistoryCentral American History

ISBN10: 0822356783
ISBN13: 9780822356783
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: May 9 2014
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.97 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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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