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Diaspora 8:1 1999 well as of kinship) in the social life of a West Bank Palestinian village in general, and of its women in particular. The importance attributed to these ties, she argues, persists even as members ofthe community migrate to Kuwait, Jordan, and Canada. Sadowski-Smith questions the assumption that the emergence of cross-border ethnodiasporan affiliation on the US-Mexican frontier leads to a post-national moment ofresistance. Invoking the example of the Berlin Wall, the old border it marked, its apparent disappearance, and the emergence of new re-borderings both in eastern Europe and elsewhere, she argues that Ethnic and American Studies can no longer be satisfied with a US—Mexican, or even hemispheric, perspective: global capital, she argues, crosses borders it only sometimes renders more porous, or eliminates; at other times, "it requires the existence of differential living conditions on a global scale." She notes that just as, in the US-Mexico border zone, increasing permeability to some economic processes coexists with an increasingly anti-immigrant remilitarization of the same border, so also across the globe "there is a proliferation of economic, social, and political borders" that coexists with the emergence of new supranationalisms such as NAFTA and the EU, and, indeed, makes them economically more viable. Watson's essay examines two important new books/arguments (by Winston James and Penny Von Eschen) about the role of migrant Caribbean radicals in African American political activism during the first half of the twentieth century. These books see the gains made by the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s as coming "at the expense of an earlier [African]-American politics rooted in transnational solidarities of both race and class." Situating these arguments within ongoing debates in the three fields of American, Ethnic, and Postcolonial Studies, Watson shows how renewed attention to Caribbean migration to the US and to the political interactions between Caribbean radicals and American Africans productively challenges all three fields. His discussion ranges over well-known figures (C.L.R. James, Marcus Garvey) but also others who remain regrettably obscure to recent scholarship, as well as over various Caribbean communities, including the AfroCuban . Watson concludes that although at present the "suture" between African American and Caribbean Studies is unstable, a properly transnational and diasporic focus makes it a promising one for the near future. Erratum As the result of a computer error, Tim Watson's review essay "An American Studies Dilemma," published in Diaspora 7:3, was not printed in full. The complete essay appears in this issue, with Diaspora's apologies both to Professor Watson and to our readers. ...