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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hooker, Juliet, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Political and social views.

Douglass, Frederick.

Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino, 1811-1888--Political and social views.

Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino.

Race relations--Philosophy.

Race relations.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Four prominent 19th and 20th-century US African-American and Latin American intellectuals - Frederick Douglass and Domingo F. Sarmiento, and W.E.B. Du Bois and Jose Vasconcelos - have never been read alongside each other. Although these thinkers addressed key political and philosophical issues in the Americas, political theorists have yet to compare their ideas about race. By juxtaposing these thinkers, 'Theorizing Race in the Americas' takes up the opportunity to bring African-American and Latin American political thought into conversation, and in turn, maps a genealogy of racial theory throughout the hemisphere.

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-067127-0

0-19-063371-9

0-19-063370-0