Imperial Educacion by Thomas Genova

Imperial Educacion by Thomas Genova

In the long nineteenth century, Argentine and Cuban reformers invited white women from the United States to train teachers as replacements for their countries' supposedly unfit mothers. Imperial Educaci n examines representations of mixed-race Afro-descended mothers in literary and educational texts from the Americas during an era in which governing elites were invested in reproducing European cultural values in their countries' citizens.

Thomas Genova analyzes the racialized figure of the republican mother in nineteenth-century literary texts in North and South America and the Caribbean, highlighting the ways in which these works question the capacity of Afro-descended women to raise good republican citizens for the newly formed New World nation-states. Considering the work of canonical and noncanonical authors alike, Genova asks how the allegory of the national family-omnipresent in the nationalist discourses of the Americas-reconciles itself to the race hierarchies upon which New World slave and postslavery societies are built. This innovative study is the first book to consider the hemispheric relations between race, republican motherhood, and public education by triangulating the nation-building processes of Cuba and Argentina through U.S. empire.

An innovative, erudite, and often riveting study of history, hemispheric studies, and comparative literature " —John AGronbeck-Tedesco, Ramapo College, author of Cuba, the United States, and Cultures of the Transnational Left, 1930–1975

Thomas Genova is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Minnesota Morris.

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ISBN 13	9780813946238
ISBN 10	0813946239
Title	Imperial Educacion
Author	Thomas Genova
Series	New World Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Virginia Press
Year published	2021-07-30
Number of pages	336
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