Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, José Vasconcelos describes how since the mid-nineteenth-century forces of “panamericanismo” have generally caused Mexico and Hispanic America to incrementally suffer the loss of cultural and economic independence. His argument [...]

In this text, Waldo Frank urges the nations of what he calls America Hispana to develop their own “backbone” in resistance to economic and cultural domination by the United States. Frank describes this “backbone” in evolutionary terms, [...]