Four prominent nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. African-American and Latin American intellectuals - Frederick Douglass and Domingo F. Sarmiento, and W. E. B. Du Bois and Jos¿asconcelos - have never been read alongside each other. Although these thinkers addressed key political and philosophical issues in the Americas, political theorists have yet to compare their ideas about race. By juxtaposing these thinkers, Theorizing Race in the Americastakes up the opportunity to bring African-American and Latin American political thought into conversation, and in turn, maps a genealogy of racial theory throughout the hemisphere.…mehr
Four prominent nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. African-American and Latin American intellectuals - Frederick Douglass and Domingo F. Sarmiento, and W. E. B. Du Bois and Jos¿asconcelos - have never been read alongside each other. Although these thinkers addressed key political and philosophical issues in the Americas, political theorists have yet to compare their ideas about race. By juxtaposing these thinkers, Theorizing Race in the Americastakes up the opportunity to bring African-American and Latin American political thought into conversation, and in turn, maps a genealogy of racial theory throughout the hemisphere.
Associate Professor of Government and African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas-Austin; author of Race and the Politics of Solidarity (OUP, 2009)
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* Acknowledgments * Introduction: Race Theory and Hemispheric Juxtaposition * Part I : Ambas Américas * 1. "A Black Sister to Massachusetts": Latin America and the Fugitive Democratic Ethos of Frederick Douglass * 2. "Mi Patria de Pensamiento": Sarmiento, the United States, and the Pitfalls of Comparison * Part II: Mestizo Futurologies * 3. "To See, Foresee, and Prophesy": Du Bois' Mulatto Fictions and Afro-Futurism * 4. "A Doctrine that Nourished the Hopes of the Non-White Races": Vasconcelos, Mestizaje's Travels, and U.S. Latino Politics * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction: Race Theory and Hemispheric Juxtaposition * Part I : Ambas Américas * 1. "A Black Sister to Massachusetts": Latin America and the Fugitive Democratic Ethos of Frederick Douglass * 2. "Mi Patria de Pensamiento": Sarmiento, the United States, and the Pitfalls of Comparison * Part II: Mestizo Futurologies * 3. "To See, Foresee, and Prophesy": Du Bois' Mulatto Fictions and Afro-Futurism * 4. "A Doctrine that Nourished the Hopes of the Non-White Races": Vasconcelos, Mestizaje's Travels, and U.S. Latino Politics * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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