In "Waves of Decolonization," David Luis-Brown reveals how between
the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the
United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization,
of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. They did so
decades before the decolonization of Africa and Asia in the
mid-twentieth century. Analyzing the work of nationalist leaders,
novelists, and social scientists, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Jose
Marti, Claude McKay, Luis-Brown brings together an array of
thinkers who linked local struggles against racial oppression and
imperialism to similar struggles in other nations. With discourses
and practices of hemispheric citizenship, writers in the Americas
broadened conventional conceptions of rights to redress their loss
under the expanding United States empire. In focusing on the
transnational production of the national in the wake of U.S.
imperialism, Luis-Brown emphasizes the need for expanding the
linguistic and national boundaries of U.S. American culture and
history.
Luis-Brown traces unfolding narratives of decolonization across
a broad range of texts. He explores how Marti and Du Bois, known as
the founders of Cuban and black nationalisms, came to develop
anticolonial discourses that cut across racial and national
divides. He illuminates how cross-fertilizations among the Harlem
Renaissance, Mexican "indigenismo," and Cuban "negrismo" in the
1920s contributed to broader efforts to keep pace with
transformations unleashed by ongoing conflicts over imperialism,
and he considers how those transformations were explored in novels
by McKay of Jamaica, Jesus Masdeu of Cuba, and Miguel angel
Menendez of Mexico. Focusing on ethnography's uneven contributions
to decolonization, he investigates how Manuel Gamio, a Mexican
anthropologist, and Zora Neale Hurston each adapted metropolitan
social science for use by writers from the racialized
periphery.
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