Excerpt from <i>Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico</i>

Abstract

José David Saldívar’s work, excerpted from <em>Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico</em>, focuses on Américo Paredes, whom he refers to as a “proto-Chicano.” Here he discusses Paredes’s columns written from Asia for the United States Army magazine <em>Stars and Stripes</em> and how his experience in Asia between 1945 and 1950 crossed with and informed his evolving viewpoint on US–Mexican borderlands and his “outernationalist” envisioning of a “Greater Mexico