Jason Ahlenius
Biographic Data
| ID | 909426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Ahlenius |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahlenius |
| SIGNATURE | AHLENIUS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Infraestructuras de imperio: La integración mexicana-estadounidense y el (anti)liberalismo en las crónicas de viajes mexicanas, 1876-1898
(English) This article considers late 19th-century U.S.-Mexican integration through the travel chronicles of two writers of Mexico’s political elite, Viaje a los Estados Unidos (1877) by Guillermo Prieto and En Tierra Yankee (1898) by Justo Sierra, with attention to their analysis of the infrastructures and built environment that sustained US imperial expansion. Critics have conventionally analyzed Latin American travel literature in relation to …
The Archives of Virtual Slavery
This article rethinks nineteenth-century Mexican liberalism and abolitionism in relation to contracts of indenture of Black and Indigenous workers from Mexico’s borderland regions of Texas and Yucatán. These contracts reveal practices of unfree labor that blurred the conceptual boundaries between slavery and freedom and the physical boundaries between “slave” and “free” territory. This ambiguity complicates Mexican elites’ creation of an abolitio…
En la sombra de la abolición: El trabajo forzado y la conciencia indígena en Perico (1885) de Arcadio Zentella y los escritos de Ángel Pola (1885-1886)
El presente ensayo analiza Perico (1885) de Arcadio Zentella y los artículos de Ángel Pola publicados en El Socialista (1885-86), dos textos que denuncian el trabajo forzado en el sur de México durante la época de emancipación. Zentella y Pola destacan las conexiones entre los trabajadores indígenas, la clase obrera mexicana y los esclavos negros para resaltar el atraso de las provincias y la necesidad de la intervención del Estado liberal. Al si…
Muybridge and the Imperial Pacific: Fashioning Histories of Empire and the Coffee State, 1867-1876
This essay discusses both the continuities and discontinuities in Eadweard Muybridge’s survey photography of the western United States and the Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico in relation to histories of empire and capital expansion. Muybridge’s photographic career followed the frontiers of US empire and capital across the Pacific Rim, and his work tended to reflect those perspectives by naturalizing the temporalities of global capital…
Sensation’s Imperial Narratives: Affect in the United States’ Democracy of Print, 1846–1848
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Sensation’s Imperial Narratives: Affect in the United States’ Democracy of Print, 1846–1848
Muybridge and the Imperial Pacific: Fashioning Histories of Empire and the Coffee State, 1867-1876
This essay discusses both the continuities and discontinuities in Eadweard Muybridge’s survey photography of the western United States and the Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico in relation to histories of empire and capital expansion. Muybridge’s photographic career followed the frontiers of US empire and capital across the Pacific Rim, and his work tended to reflect those perspectives by naturalizing the temporalities of global capital…
The Archives of Virtual Slavery
This article rethinks nineteenth-century Mexican liberalism and abolitionism in relation to contracts of indenture of Black and Indigenous workers from Mexico’s borderland regions of Texas and Yucatán. These contracts reveal practices of unfree labor that blurred the conceptual boundaries between slavery and freedom and the physical boundaries between “slave” and “free” territory. This ambiguity complicates Mexican elites’ creation of an abolitio…
En la sombra de la abolición: El trabajo forzado y la conciencia indígena en Perico (1885) de Arcadio Zentella y los escritos de Ángel Pola (1885-1886)
El presente ensayo analiza Perico (1885) de Arcadio Zentella y los artículos de Ángel Pola publicados en El Socialista (1885-86), dos textos que denuncian el trabajo forzado en el sur de México durante la época de emancipación. Zentella y Pola destacan las conexiones entre los trabajadores indígenas, la clase obrera mexicana y los esclavos negros para resaltar el atraso de las provincias y la necesidad de la intervención del Estado liberal. Al si…
Infraestructuras de imperio: La integración mexicana-estadounidense y el (anti)liberalismo en las crónicas de viajes mexicanas, 1876-1898
(English) This article considers late 19th-century U.S.-Mexican integration through the travel chronicles of two writers of Mexico’s political elite, Viaje a los Estados Unidos (1877) by Guillermo Prieto and En Tierra Yankee (1898) by Justo Sierra, with attention to their analysis of the infrastructures and built environment that sustained US imperial expansion. Critics have conventionally analyzed Latin American travel literature in relation to …
Colonialism (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Afro-Latin American Studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · History (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Law (2 works)