Title Theorizing race in the Americas : Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos / Juliet Hooker

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) Contents 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 Summary "In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere--the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist leader, and orator from the United States, Frederick Douglass--both published their first works. Each would become the most famous and enduring texts in what were both prolific careers, and they ensured Sarmiento and Douglass' position as leading figures in the canon of Latin American and U.S. African-American political thought, respectively. But despite the fact that both deal directly with key political and philosophical questions in the Americas, Douglass and Sarmiento, like African-American and Latin American thought more generally, are never read alongside each other. This may be because their ideas about race differed dramatically. Sarmiento advocated the Europeanization of Latin America and espoused a virulent form of anti-indigenous racism, while Douglass opposed slavery and defended the full humanity of black persons. Still, as Juliet Hooker contends, looking at the two together allows one to chart a hemispheric intellectual geography of race that challenges political theory's preoccupation with and assumptions about East/West comparisons, and questions the use of comparison as a tool in the production of theory and philosophy. By juxtaposing four prominent nineteenth and twentieth-century thinkers--Frederick Douglass, Domingo F. Sarmiento, W.E.B. Du Bois, and José Vasconcelos--her book will be the first to bring African-American and Latin American political thought into conversation. Hooker stresses that Latin American and U.S. ideas about race were not developed in isolation, but grew out of transnational intellectual exchanges across the Americas. In so doing, she shows that nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. and Latin American thinkers each looked to political models in the 'other' America to advance racial projects in their own countries. Reading these four intellectuals as hemispheric thinkers, Hooker foregrounds elements of their work that have been dismissed by dominant readings, and provides a crucial platform to bridge the canons of Latin American and African-American political thought"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 03, 2017) Subject Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Political and social views Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino, 1811-1888 -- Political and social views Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 -- Political and social views Vasconcelos, José, 1881-1959 -- Political and social views SUBJECT Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 fast Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 fast Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino, 1811-1888 fast Vasconcelos, José, 1881-1959 fast Subject Race relations -- Philosophy POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Intellectual life Political and social views Race relations Race relations -- Philosophy SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History Latin America -- Race relations -- History United States -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140363 Latin America -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074908 Subject Latin America United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017003616 ISBN 9780190633707 0190633700 9780190633714 0190633719

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