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The Mexicans Speak for Themselves
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2015
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Anyone teaching a course focused on an alien culture has his hands full—be it economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, language, literature or history. The instructor constantly must ask himself: am I getting it across? That question, of course, is a normal one for any teacher but somehow it seems to appear more frequently and most frighteningly before the individual charged with enlightening some fellow Americans on the subject of some select foreign group. I remember the last time I got into that pattern of thought. That was the time I actually did something about it.
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1 Does not this sublimation [of Bello and Medina] suggest that a true understanding of the character and reality of Hispanic American people cannot be gained alone through a knowledge of the military, the political, or even the economic and social aspects of their experience, but to these must be added a familiarity with, and a respect for, their cultural accomplishments in which, in the long run, they properly take greater pride?” in “Andrés Bello (1781–1865), National Hero,” Hispanic American Historical Review, XXXIV, No. 4 (November, 1954), 505.
2 “…Schurz [This New World: The Civilization of Latin America] omits, almost entirely, those higher manifestations of ‘Latin American Civilization’ which the sub-title leads one to expect. Architecture, the fine arts, literature, music, painting—all are mentioned only in passing. Thus this reader felt himself murmuring: ‘the plant is all here, but where is the flower?’” Hispanic American Historical Review, XXXIV, No. 4 (November, 1954), 538.
3 “Al señalar lo que parece ser error constante en los escritos del pasado y de ahora sobre la historia latinoamericana por autores norteamericanos, hay que hacer notar primero una inclinación a ignorar las novelas, la poesía, los ensayos literarios y la literatura dramática del período que se viene estudiando,” in “La tradición de la historia latinoamericana en los Estados Unidos: apreciación preliminar,” Revista de Historia de America, Nums. 35–36 (Ene.-Dic. de 1953), 55–56.
4 “Some Historical Values in a Famous Mexican Novel,” THE AMERICAS, XI, No. 2 (October, 1954), 131–139.