Hyphenated Identities in Postwar Latin America III: (Re)constructing transnational solidarities, uncovering conflicting loyalties

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel is part of a series on hyphenated identities in post-Second World War Latin America, bringing together scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds and regional focuses. The series challenges standard understandings of ethnicity, state, and nation by carrying the analysis into a period where similar scholarship is all but non-existent.

These papers explore the transnational solidarities and conflicting loyalties that developed in the shadow of the Second World War. Political changes and realignments in diasporic “homelands” played a determinant role in the politics of claiming or being ascribed hyphenated identities, even for those hoping to avoid association with said homeland.

Sub Track

• Migration, Borders and Diasporas

Session Organizer

• Glen S Goodman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chair

• Robert V Kelz

Individual Presentations

• Peronismo and the Egyptian Revolution: Mid-Century South-South Dialogues - Lily G Balloffet, North Carolina State University

• Translation, Traitors, and Nationalism in the Post-World War II Japanese Brazilian Community - Zelideth M Rivas, Marshall University

• The Survivors’ Hunt for Nazi Fugitives in Brazil - Kyle L McLain

• Being German in Postwar Chile and Guatemala - H Glenn Penny

Discussant

• Jurgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina/Charlotte