{"id":62403,"date":"2021-11-28T02:42:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T02:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62403"},"modified":"2021-11-28T02:42:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T02:42:19","slug":"imperial-educacion-race-and-republican-motherhood-in-the-nineteenth-century-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62403","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Educaci\u00f3n: Race and Republican Motherhood in the Nineteenth-Century Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imperial Educaci\u00f3n: Race and Republican Motherhood in the Nineteenth-Century Americas<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Virginia Press<\/a>
August 2021
342 pages
Cloth ISBN: 9780813946238
Paper ISBN: 9780813946238
eBook ISBN: 9780813946238<\/p>\n

Thomas Genova<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Spanish
University of Minnesota, Morris<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the long nineteenth century, Argentine and Cuban reformers invited white women from the United States<\/a> to train teachers as replacements for their countries\u2019 supposedly unfit mothers. Imperial Educaci\u00f3n<\/em> examines representations of mixed-race Afro-descended mothers in literary and educational texts from the Americas<\/a> during an era in which governing elites were invested in reproducing European cultural values in their countries\u2019 citizens.<\/p>\n

Thomas Genova analyzes the racialized figure of the republican mother in nineteenth-century literary texts in North<\/a> and South America<\/a> and the Caribbean<\/a>, highlighting the ways in which these works question the capacity of Afro-descended women to raise good republican citizens for the newly formed New World<\/a> nation-states. Considering the work of canonical and noncanonical authors alike, Genova asks how the allegory of the national family\u2014omnipresent in the nationalist discourses of the Americas\u2014reconciles itself to the race hierarchies upon which New World slave and postslavery societies are built. This innovative study is the first book to consider the hemispheric relations between race, republican motherhood, and public education by triangulating the nation-building processes of Cuba<\/a> and Argentina<\/a> through U.S. empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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