Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater MexicoA founder of U. S. Mexico border studies, Jos David Sald var is a leading figure in efforts to expand the scope of American studies. In Trans Americanity, he advances that critical project by arguing for a transnational, antinational, and "outernational" paradigm for American studies. Sald var urges Americanists to adopt a world system scale of analysis. "Americanity as a Concept," an essay by the Peruvian sociologist An bal Quijano and Immanuel