Forging People

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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 Simón 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.

Forging People is an indispensable resource for anyone who works, teaches, or is interested in the thought, history, and social situation of Latin America and the views of Latinos residing in the United States.

Sujets

• Women's Studies
• Hispanic American Studies
• Ethnic Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• América
• Hispanic and Latino Americans
• Hispanic
• Latina
• American

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 30 octobre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268080662
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

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F O R G I N G P E O P L E

L A T I N O P E R S P E C T I V E S Gilberto Cárdenas, series editor

The Institute for Latino Studies, in keeping with

the distinctive mission, values, and traditions of the

University of Notre Dame, promotes understanding

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Edited by J O R G E J . E . G R A C I A

University of Notre Dame Press

Notre Dame, Indiana

Copyright © 2011 by University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved

Publishedin the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Forging people : race, ethnicity, and nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a thought / edited by Jorge J.E. Gracia. p.cm. — (Latino perspectives)  Includes bibliographical references and index.  ISBN13: 9780268029821 (pbk.)  ISBN10: 0268029822 (paper) 1.2. LatinEthnicity—Latin America—Philosophy—History. America—Race relations—Philosophy—History. 3. Nationalism—Latin America—Philosophy—History. 4. Citizenship—Latin America— Philosophy—History. I. Gracia, Jorge J. E.  F1419.A1F66 2011  305.80098—dc23 2011025678

Contributors Preface

Contents

1. Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic  American and Latino/a Thought Jorge J. E. Gracia

Part I. The Colony and Scholasticism

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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’sPatria José Antonio Aguilar Rivera

4. Andrés Bello: Race and National Political Culture Iván Jaksic A

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5. Undoing “Race”: Martí’s Historical Predicament Ofelia Schutte

Part III. New Nations and Positivism

6. Sarmiento on Barbarism, Race, and Nation  Building Janet Burke and Ted Humphrey

7. Justo Sierra and the Forging of a Mexican Nation Oscar R. M artí

Part IV. Challenges in the Twentieth Century

8. Rodó, Race, and Morality Arleen Salles

9. ZarathustraCriollo:Vasconcelos on Race Diego von Vacano

10. The Amauta’s Ambivalence: Mariátegui on Race Renzo Llorente

11.Mestizaje, mexicanidad,and Assimilation:  Zea on Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality Amy A. Oliver

Part V. Latinos/as in the United States

12. Latino/a Identity and the Search for Unity:  Alcoff, Corlett, and Gracia Elizabeth M illán and Ernesto Rosen Velásquez

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José Antonio Aguilar Riverateaches political science in the Division of Political Studies at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económi cas A.C. (CIDE) in Mexico City. He specializes in nineteenthcentury constitutionalism, the history of liberalism, and the intellectual rela tions between Mexico and the United States. He is the author ofEl 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 US Mexico Border(2000);En pos de la quimera: Reflexiones sobre el experimento constitucional atlántico (2000);El fin de la raza cós mica: Consideraciones sobre el esplendor y decadencia del libera lismo en México(2001); andEl sonido y la furia: Ensayos sobre la persuasión multicultural en México y los Estados Unidos(2005). In addition, he is coeditor, with Rafael Rojas, ofEl republicanismo en Hispanoamérica: Ensayos de historia intelectual y política(2002).

Janet Burkeis a member of the faculty in Barrett, the Honors Col lege, and Associate Dean at Arizona State University. She is also a fellow in the Lincoln Center for Ethics. Her field of study is intel lectual 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

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areLiberty in Mexico,José Antonio Aguilar Rivera as editor with and Ted Humphrey, a translation of the work of Mexican public philosophers (forthcoming); and, with Ted Humphrey,The Moral Voices of Their Peopleand a translation and edition of Bernal Díaz del Castillo’sThe True History of the Conquest of New Spain.

Jorge J. E. Graciathe Samuel P. Capen Chair and is State holds University of New York Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo. Among his pub lications areImages 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); andHispanics/Latinos in the United States,coedited with Pablo De Greiff(2000). He is currently working on a book tentatively titledPainting Borges: Philosophy Interpreting Art Interpreting Literature,which explores the artistic interpretation of literature.

Ted HumphreyPresident’s Professor, Lincoln Professor of Eth is ics, and Barret Professor at Arizona State University. He special izes 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’sThe 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

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and political history, especially during the independence and national periods. He is the author ofAcademic 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 asVen conmigo a la España lejana: Los intelectuales norteamericanos ante el mundo hispano, 1820–1880(2007); and over forty articles in academic jour nals and books. He is editor or coeditor of seven volumes, including Sarmiento: Author of a Nation(1994);Selected Writings of Andrés Bello(1997); andThe Political Power of the Word: Press and Ora tory in NineteenthCentury Latin AmericaHis most recent (2002). publication is a critical edition of Alberto Blest Gana’s 1897Durante la reconquista,a novel about the independence period.

Renzo Llorenteteaches 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 numer ous papers in these and other areas. His recent publications include Beyond the Pale: Exercises in Provocation (2010); the chapter on Marxism inA Companion to Latin American Philosophy,ed. Susana Nuccetelli et al. (2010); “The Moral Framework of Peter Singer’sAni mal Liberation,” inEthical Perspectives (March 2009); and “Sobre el humanismo especista de Víctor Gómez Pin,” inRazonar y actuar en defensa de los animales, ed. Marta I. González et al. (2008). He is currently working on the moral foundations of Marxism.

Oscar R. Martíis Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies at Cali fornia State University, Northridge, where he teaches Mexican phi losophy and critical reasoning. His published works include “Early Critics of Positivism,” inTheBlackwell Companion to Latin Ameri can Philosophy(2009); “Breaking with the Past: Philosophy and Its History in Latin America,” inThe Role of History in Latin Ameri can Philosophy,ed. Arleen Salles and Elizabeth MillánZaibert (2005); and several reviews forIsisandUtopian Studies. Currently he is finishing an anthology titledMexican Philosophers since the Encuentro.