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The 'Day Without Immigrants', the first national strike for more minority rights spearheaded by Mexican American (il)legal immigrants on 1 st of May 2006 and the tremendous political recognition it received nation-and worldwide, 1 put further proof to Carmen Birkle's thesis, namely that even at the beginning of the Third Millennium "America continues to be an unfinished project" (323). And indeed, to this day on-going (im)migration and emancipation movements as well as patterns of dislocation, miscegenation and transculturation make their marks in the composition of the United States, yet also worldwide. Above all, multiethnic inhabitants, not all of them citizens yet, continue their strife to locate and negotiate a self between cultures, ethnicities, and even nations. 2 Similarly unfinished, yet rapidly outgrowing its nappies, is the transcultural studies project. So far, this emerging critical debate, which dates back to ethnography and the social sciences (cf. Fernando Ortiz, Angel Rama, M. Taussig), has most successfully been pursued in the Humanities by such prolific critics like Mary Louise Pratt (Transculturation), Wolfgang Welsch (Transculturality), Sneja Gunew (Transcultur

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Author

Karin Ikas

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2007

Language

RO

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)