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

Contributors

vii contributors José Antonio Aguilar Rivera teaches political science in the Division of Political studies at the centro de investigación y Docencia económicas a.c. (ciDe) in Mexico city. He specializes in nineteenth-century constitutionalism, the history of liberalism, and the intellectual relations between Mexico and the United states. He is the author of El manto liberal: Los poderes de emergencia en México, 1821–1876 (2001); Cartas mexicanas de Alexis de Tocqueville (1999); The Shadow of Ulysses: Public Intellectual Exchange across the USMexico Border (2000); En pos de la quimera: Reflexiones sobre el experimento constitucional atlántico (2000); El fin de la raza cósmica : Consideraciones sobre el esplendor y decadencia del liberalismo en México (2001); and El sonido y la furia: Ensayos sobre la persuasión multicultural en México y los Estados Unidos (2005). in addition, he is coeditor, with rafael rojas, of El republicanismo en Hispanoamérica: Ensayos de historia intelectual y política (2002). Janet Burke is a member of the faculty in Barrett, the Honors college , and associate Dean at arizona state University. she is also a fellow in the lincoln center for ethics. Her field of study is intellectual history. Her most recent publication, with ted Humphrey, is an edited volume, Nineteenth-Century Nation Building and the Latin American Intellectual Tradition (2007). Her current projects viii Contributors are Liberty in Mexico, with José antonio aguilar rivera as editor and ted Humphrey, a translation of the work of Mexican public philosophers (forthcoming); and, with ted Humphrey, The Moral Voices of Their People and a translation and edition of Bernal Díaz del castillo’s The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. Jorge J.E. Gracia holds the samuel P. capen chair and is state University of new York Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and comparative literature at the University at Buffalo. among his publications are Images of Thought: Philosophical Interpretations of Carlos Estévez’s Art (2009); Latinos in America: Philosophy and Social Identity (2008); Surviving Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century (2005); Old Wine in New Skins: The Role of Tradition in Communication, Knowledge, and Group Identity (2003); Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective (2000); How Can We Know What God Means? The Interpretation of Revelation (2000); and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States, coedited with Pablo De greiff (2000). He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Painting Borges: Philosophy Interpreting Art Interpreting Literature, which explores the artistic interpretation of literature. Ted Humphrey is President’s Professor, lincoln Professor of ethics , and Barret Professor at arizona state University. He specializes in philosophy and intellectual history. His most recent book, with Janet Burke, is the edited volume, Nineteenth-Century Nation Building and the Latin American Intellectual Tradition (2007). among his current projects are, with José antonio aguilar rivera as editor and Janet Burke, Liberty in Mexico, a translation of the work of Mexican public philosophers; with Janet Burke, The Moral Voices of Their People; and, also with Janet Burke, a translation and edition of Bernal Díaz del castillo’s The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. Iván Jaksica is Professor of History at the Pontificia Universidad católica de chile and Director of the stanford University Program in chile. His primary research interests are latin american intellectual Contributors ix and political history, especially during the independence and national periods. He is the author of Academic Rebels in Chile: The Role of Philosophy in Higher Education and Politics (1989); Andrés Bello: Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (2001); The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820–1880 (2007), which also appeared in spanish as Ven conmigo a la España lejana: Los intelectuales norteamericanos ante el mundo hispano, 1820–1880 (2007); and over forty articles in academic journals and books. He is editor or coeditor of seven volumes, including Sarmiento: Author of a Nation (1994); Selected Writings of Andrés Bello (1997); and The Political Power of the Word: Press and Oratory in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (2002). His most recent publication is a critical edition of alberto Blest gana’s 1897 Durante la reconquista, a novel about the independence period. Renzo Llorente teaches philosophy at saint louis University’s Madrid campus. His research centers on issues in social philosophy, ethics, and latin american philosophy, and he is the author of numerous papers in...