In this Book
- Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
summary
Forging People explores the way in which Hispanic American thinkers in Latin America and Latino/a philosophers in the United States have posed and thought about questions of race, ethnicity, and nationality, and how they have interpreted the most significant racial and ethnic labels used in Hispanic America in connection with issues of rights, nationalism, power, and identity. Following the first introductory chapter, each of the essays addresses one or more influential thinkers, ranging from Bartolomé de Las Casas on race and the rights of Amerindians; to Simon Bolívar's struggle with questions of how to forge a nation from disparate populations; to modern and contemporary thinkers on issues of race, unity, assimilation, and diversity. Each essay carefully and clearly presents the views of key authors in their historical and philosophical context and provides brief biographical sketches and reading lists, as aids to students and other readers.
Table of Contents
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- Contributors
- pp. vii-xi
- 8. Rodó, Race, and Morality
- pp. 181-202
- 9. Zarathustra Criollo: Vasconcelos on Race
- pp. 203-227
- Bibliography
- pp. 303-327
Additional Information
ISBN
9780268080662
Related ISBN(s)
9780268029821
MARC Record
OCLC
794925843
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No