Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought

Contents

contents contributors vii Preface xiii 1. race, ethnicity, and nationality in Hispanic american and latino/a thought 1 Jorge J. E. Gracia Part I. The Colony and Scholasticism 2. the new Black legend of Bartolomé de las casas: race and Personhood 31 Janet Burke and Ted Humphrey Part II. Independence and the Enlightenment 3. Men or citizens? the Making of Bolívar’s Patria 57 José Antonio Aguilar Rivera 4. andrés Bello: race and national Political culture 85 Iván JaksicA vi Contents 5. Undoing “race”: Martí’s Historical Predicament 99 Ofelia Schutte Part III. New Nations and Positivism 6. sarmiento on Barbarism, race, and nation Building 127 Janet Burke and Ted Humphrey 7. Justo sierra and the Forging of a Mexican nation 152 Oscar R. Martí Part IV. Challenges in the Twentieth Century 8. rodó, race, and Morality 181 Arleen Salles 9. Zarathustra Criollo: vasconcelos on race 203 Diego von Vacano 10. the amauta’s ambivalence: Mariátegui on race 228 Renzo Llorente 11. Mestizaje, mexicanidad, and assimilation: Zea on race, ethnicity, and nationality 249 Amy A. Oliver Part V. Latinos/as in the United States 12. latino/a identity and the search for Unity: alcoff, corlett, and gracia 271 Elizabeth Millán and Ernesto Rosen Velásquez Bibliography 303 index 328 ...