Introduction: Essays Beyond the Nation / Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine -- 1. Hemispheric Jamestown / Anna Brickhouse -- 2. The Hemispheric Genealogies of "Race": Creolization and the Cultural Geography of Colonial Difference across the Eighteenth-Century Americas / Ralph Bauer -- 3. "La Famosa Filadelfia": The Hemispheric American City and Constitutional Debates / Rodrigo Lazo -- 4. The Other Country: Mexico, the United States, and the Gothic History of Conquest / Jesse Aleman -- 5. An American Mediterranean: Haiti, Cuba, and the American South / Matthew Pratt Guterl -- 6. Expropriating The Great South and Exporting "Local Color": Global and Hemispheric Imaginaries of the First Reconstruction / Jennifer Rae Greeson -- 7. The Mercurial Space of "Central" America: New Orleans, Honduras, and the Writing of the Banana Republic / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- 8. "I'm the Everybody Who's Nobody": Genealogies of the New World Slave in Paul Robeson's Performances of the 1930s / Michelle A. Stephens -- 9. The Promises and Perils of U.S. African American Hemispherism: Latin America in Martin Delany's Blake and Gayl Jones's Mosquito / Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo -- 10. PEN and the Sword: U.S.-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy and the 1966 PEN Club Congress / Deborah Cohn -- 11. The Hemispheric Routes of "El Nuevo Arte Nuestro": The Pan American Union, Cultural Policy, and the Cold War / Claire F. Fox -- 12. Memin Pinguin, Rumba, and Racism: Afro-Mexicans in Classic Comics and Film / Robert McKee Irwin -- 13. "Out of This World": Islamic Irruptions in the Literary Americas / Timothy Marr -- 14. Of Hemispheres and Other Spheres: Navigating Karen Tei Yamashita's Literary World / Kandice Chuh -- 15. The Northern Borderlands and Latino Canadian Diaspora / Rachel Adams -- Afterword: The Times of Hemispheric Studies / Susan Gillman.