From "the American 1848" to "the American 1898"

I. Review from last week:
"The American 1848" to "the American 1898"

A. Print Culture: On lynching, subaltern citizenship and writing against authority
Latinos and Blacks

B. Transnational Martí

Martí and "Moderniso" (1888-1916)
Modernista thematics pre- and post-1898

1. Given the examples we have discussed of Latino "citizenship" vs. "cultural citizenship" ("subaltern" citizenship), How does José Martí extend the concept of "rights" in hemispheric terms? Why? To what ends?

2. Given the U.S. example, and U.S. expansionism in the XIX century in particular (e.g., Mexico-US War), why is Martí so invested in understanding the concept of "governance" in "Nuestra América"?

3. What is Martí's relationship to the problematics of race and education?

4. What would good governance look like for José Martí?

II. Herencia

1. Paradigmes of US Latino literature proposed in Herencia
a. Native Latino Literature
b. Literature of Immigration/Migration
c. Literature of Exile

2. Archives and consequences
Malcolm X

III. Cortez: A Life in Translation (The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983), dir. Robert Young)