xi. the ethnic studies moment could then also be seen as the displacement of those narratives of white American national homogeneity by new ones that responded to a much more international imaginary (Third World anticolonialist struggles, socialist and anticapitalist movements) that stressed not American exceptionalism but the multiple connections likning its diverse ethnic polulations with "foreign" national cultures. Somewhat paradoxically, nationalist movements fueled an international imaginary. xiii. it could also be argues that this disciplinary map was constituted by a fundamental denial of coevalness whereby the West produced knowledge about the present and the future, while the rest afforded an oportunity to know, via field trips, the past (Clifford 1986). xxii. “My own idea of a Latino/a Amerian world-regional imaginary and space attempts to circumscribe not ahistorical essences but grounded sociocultural processes and circuits well illustrated in t...