Journal article
US print culture and José Martí’s Crónicas on US-Indigenous peoples’ rights
Latino studies, Vol.22(4), pp.590-609
12/2024
DOI: 10.1057/s41276-024-00494-y
Abstract
This essay argues for the centrality and increasing influence of late nineteenth-century US print culture, in the form of printed books, mass-circulation newspapers, and literary magazines, on José Martí’s US-based crónicas (chronicles) that reflect his gradual critical interpretation related to the violence and land dispossession of Indigenous people in the US and their lack of basic rights. Martí’s interest in and writings about US-Indigenous people are connected to the increased advocacy for Native peoples’ rights in US print culture by white reformers, particularly Helen Hunt Jackson. My analysis builds on the works of scholars who have studied Martí’s writings on US-Indigenous people, including his 1887 translation of Jackson’s reform novel, Ramona (2002 [1884]), and draws from Indigenous and Indigeneity scholars’ emphasis on settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty. While Martí initially concurred with reformers who advocated for the passing of the Dawes Act of 1887, which offered US citizenship to Native groups who accepted allotment, he came to question US jurisdiction over US-Indigenous populations in part through his realization that Indigenous people and Black people in the South have shared a history of racialization, violence, and disenfranchisement within the confines of the US nation-state.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- US print culture and José Martí’s Crónicas on US-Indigenous peoples’ rights
- Creators
- Jose O. Fernandez - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Latino studies, Vol.22(4), pp.590-609
- Publisher
- PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD
- DOI
- 10.1057/s41276-024-00494-y
- ISSN
- 1476-3435
- eISSN
- 1476-3443
- Grant note
- Pedagogy at the University of Iowa
I would like to thank colleagues for their generous feedback on sections of this essay during the Mellon Imagining Latinidades Workshop on Latinx Scholarship and Pedagogy at the University of Iowa during summer 2022. Special thanks to Teresa Mangum for giving me the opportunity to participate and to Naomi Greyser and Aimee Carrillo Rowe for leading the workshop. Thank you also to the journal's anonymous reviewers for their incisive feedback and to Marta Caminero-Santangelo for her editorial guidance.
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 10/25/2024
- Date published
- 12/2024
- Academic Unit
- Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984739540202771
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