Trans-AmericanityA founder of U. S. Mexico border studies, Jos David Saldvar 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. Saldvar urges Americanists to adopt a world system scale of analysis. "Americanity as a Concept," an essay by the Peruvian sociologist Anbal Quijano and Immanuel