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Chapter 7 - Nationalism - Born in Blood and Fire - A Concise History of Latin America, 3e - W. W. Norton StudySpace
Chapter 7 - Nationalism - Born in Blood and Fire - A Concise History of Latin America, 3e - W. W. Norton StudySpace
Chapter 7 - Nationalism - Born in Blood and Fire - A Concise History of Latin America, 3e - W. W. Norton StudySpace
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Nationalism
Chapter Study Outline
In the wake of neocolonialism, Latin Americans remade the nativist rhetoric of the past to push a new
nationalist cultural and economic agenda.
I. Nationalism
1. Latin American nations had been defined by their internal diversity
1. Transculturation
2. Racial mixing
2. Europeans had associated Latin American difference with a negative meaning
1. Nativism challenged this attitude
2. Nativism faded after independence
3. New nationalism was another wave of nativism with strong economic agenda
4. Who were nationalists?
1. Often urban, middle class
2. Mixed-race or recent immigrants
3. Benefitted less from export boom
5. Nationalism challenged the supposed superiority of European culture
1. Reinterpretation of Latin American difference as positive
2. Use of local cultural forms to define that difference
6. Critique of foreign intervention
1. Military intervention
2. Economic power
7. Ethnic nationalism
1. Differs from U.S. “civic nationalism”
2. Employs signs of ethnic identity
1. Foods
2. Dance
3. Clothing
3. Celebrates racial mixing
1. Adaptation to Latin American environment
2. Sometimes as improvement — best of all races
3. Nicolás Guillen
1. Premier exponent of Afro-Cuban identity
2. “Ballad of Two Grandfathers”
3. Poems sometimes mimicked Afro-Cuban speech
4. Many writers use indigenous and Afro-Cuban themes
1. Alejo Carpentier (Cuba)
2. Ciro Alegría (Peru)
3. Miguel ángel Asturias (Guatemala)
II. Nationalists Take Power
1. Mexican Revolution
1. Díaz had ruled for 34 years by 1910
2. Reformers back Francisco Madero
1. Madero sought only more power for elites in Díaz government
2. Madero was jailed and exiled
3. Madero radicalizes, proposes returning indigenous lands
4. Emiliano Zapata
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