Frederick B. Pike, Fredrick B. Pike

The United States and Latin America

Myths and Stereotypes of Civilization and Nature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The central thesis in this book is that North Americans have identified themselves with civilization in all its manifestations, while viewing Latin Americans as hopelessly trapped in primitivism, the victims of nature rather than its masters.

Produktdetails

• University of Texas Press
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780292785243
• ISBN-10: 0292785240
• Artikelnr.: 26393574

Autorenporträt

By Fredrick B. Pike

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preface
2. 1. Nature and Its Enigmatic Images in American Lore
* Nature in One of Its Manifestations: An Evil to Be Conquered,
Reformed, and Exploited
* The Mythology of Regeneration in Nature
* The Myth of Nature as Beneficent Goddess
* Nature Within, Nature Without, and Phenomena of Projection
* Worlds Within, Worlds Without, and Myths of Reconciling Opposites
* Latin America Assumes Its Place in America’s Fusion-of-Opposites
Mythology
3. 2. Wild People in Wild Lands: Early American Views of Latin Americans
* Stereotyping the Other: An Overview of Nature-and-Civilization Images
* Nineteenth-Century American Stereotyping of the Latin Other
* Sex and Alcohol, and Latin American Primitivism
* Anger and Passion, Rebelliousness and Anarchy: More Symptoms of Latin
American Primitiveness
* Economic Failure and Latin American Primitiveness
* Religious “Primitivism” and Latin American “Retardation”
4. 3. Latin Americans and Indians: Ambiguous Perceptions of an Alleged
Connection
* Latin Americans: Potential Saviors of an Unfulfilled Civilization?
* Stereotypes of the Good Indian
* The Bad Indian and the Merging of Indian and Latin American
Stereotypes
* Indians, Latin Americans, and Massacres
* The Civilized and the Wild, and Myths of Death and Regeneration
* Latin Resentment of American Prejudices
* Frontier Mythology and the Poisoning of Hemispheric Relations
5. 4. Our Frontier and Theirs: American Perceptions of Latin American
Backwardness
* Iberian and Anglo Approaches to New World Frontiers: Underlying
Differences?
* Frontier Experiences and Pejorative Comparisons: The United States
and Latin America
* Gospel, Glory, and Gold, and Iberian Frontiers
* Waves of Frontier Settlement in America, and the Missing Waves in
Latin America
* Cowboys and Vaqueros and Comparative Frontier Experiences
* Indians and Comparative American–Latin American Frontier Perspectives
* African Americans, Palenques, and Quilombos, and Frontier Differences
* Comparative Frontiers: Our Racial Purity, Their Mestizaje
* Positive and Ambiguous Perceptions of Mestizaje among Americans
6. 5. America in the Age cf the New Imperialism
* The Alleged End of the American Frontier
* The American Quest for New Frontiers
* Soft and/or Hard Inducements to U.S. Penetration of the Latin
American Frontier
* The Uplift of Colonials
* The Indian Background to Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century U.S. Latin
American Policy
* Immigrants, Indians, and Latins: The American Quest to Control the
Other
* American Racism Intensifies Contempt for the Other
* Racism, Imperialism, and American Fairs
* Americans at Fairs: The Midway, the White Way, or Both Ways?
7. 6. From Arielism to Modernism: Hemispheric Visions in the Age of Roosevelt
and Wilson
* Arielism, North and South of the Border
* Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Hemispheric Visions
* Racism, Once More, as an Issue in Internal and External Colonialism
* Modernism’s Revolt against Modernity
8. 7. The Twenties: Normalcy, Counterculture, and Clashing Perceptions of
Latin America
* American Breaks in Two
* Communism as the New Primitivism Sparks American Divisiveness
* New Questers after New Frontiers: The Reemergence of a Counterculture
* Counterculture and the Cult of the Natural
* Exploring the African American Frontier in the 1920s
* Exploring America’s Indian and Hispanic Frontiers in the 1920s
* Latin America’s Lure as an Alternative and Complement to American
Civilization
* Variations on Arielism Challenged by Waldo Frank’s Variations on
Modernism
* Waldo Frank, Franz Boas, and the Background to the Good Neighbor
Policy
9. 8. The Quest for Equilibrium with Nature: The Good Neighbor Policy,
1933–1945
* The Failure of Uplift
* Cultural Pluralism Abets the Rejection of Uplift
* The New Deal and the Quest to Live More Respectfully with Nature
* Goodwill toward Latin America: Counterculture Values Enter the
Establishment
* Goodwill toward Latin America: American Music, Classical and Popular
* Spanish Republicans Eclipse the Attraction of Latin American
Revolutionaries
* The Late Good Neighbor Policy: Normalcy Triumphs over Utopianism
* Might-Have-Beens in Hemispheric Relations Yield to Old, and New,
Realities
10. 9. America’s Postwar Generation: New Variations on Old Themes
* Civilization Cleansed, Civilization Triumphant
* Civilization Threatened
* Classical and Popular Music and the Reemergence of an Adversary
Culture
* The Counterculture, the Establishment, and John F. Kennedy’s New
Frontier
* Third Worldism and the Issues of Cuba, Vietnam, and Nicaragua
* The Advent of a New Generation
11. 10. Change and Permanence in Myths and Stereotypes: Civilization and Nature
toward Century’s End
* The Balance Shifts in Civilization’s War on Nature
* A “New History” Begins as a Century Ends
* Latin America in the Context of Changing American Perceptions of the
Natural World
* Embourgeoisement: The Counterculture’s Loss of Illusions about Latin
America
* Latin America: Still in a State of Nature?
* The State of Nature Spreads to America
* Drugs and the Struggle of Civilization with Nature
* The Latin Americanization of America
* Popular Music and New Life for the Cult of the Natural
* Rock Music and the Displacement of External by the Internal Primitive
* In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See
12. Notes
13. Index