In two thinkers from the American hemisphere β the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist leader, and orator from the United States, Frederick Douglass β both published their first works. African-American political thought, respectively. But despite the fact that both deal directly with key political and philosophical questions in the Americas, Douglass and Sarmiento, like African-American and Latin American thought more generally, are never read alongside each other.
By juxtaposing four prominent nineteenth and twentieth-century thinkers β Frederick Douglass, Domingo F. Sarmiento, W. The book stresses that Latin American and U. In so doing, she shows that nineteenth and twentieth-century U.
Reading these four intellectuals as hemispheric thinkers, the author foregrounds elements of their work that have been dismissed by dominant readings, and provides a crucial platform to bridge the canons of Latin American and African-American political thought. She earned her undergraduate degree from Williams College, and her M. James P. Stancil II is an educator, multimedia journalist, and writer. He can be reached most easily through his LinkedIn page or at james.
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