Fleeting visions of a continent-wide union THE thin air of Cusco, mountain capital of the ancient Inca civilisation, is conducive to giddiness. Leaders of eight countries gathered there this week to declare the founding of a "South American Community of Nations" which...

This article examines how National Geographic Magazine's coverage of the U.S. South contributed to the production of an exalted American national identity. The framework of internal orientalism is employed to explain the role of the South as an internal other in the national discourse...