Borderlands Letrados

Angel Rama’s concept of the letrado refers to Latin American lettered individuals who used writing to consolidate the nation. But what might it have meant to be a letrado in the geopolitical context of the US-Mexico border in the early twentieth century, one that combined territorial dispossession, migration, and revolution? This essay examines the contributions of border Mexicans to La crónica, an influential Laredo, Texas, newspaper that appeared at least from 1910 to 1914. These “borderlands letrados” engaged the Mexican nation from positions of opposition during the Mexican Revolution while contending with Anglo-American nativist imperatives, which shaped their cultivation of an ethnic identity in the United States. Mobilizing the concept of the letrado in the context of these borderlands writers makes them legible within larger Latin American currents while elucidating their place at the center of issues encompassing ethnic, national, and transnational concerns

Context (archaeology) · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geopolitics · Immigration · Latin Americans · National identity · Newspaper · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies · Law

• Thread of Blood

  Ana María Alonso•Thread of Blood•1995

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• The Mexican Revolution and the Spanish-Language Press in the Borderlands

  Richard Griswold Del Castillo•Journalism History•1977

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• Desert Immigrants

  Mark Reisler, Mario T García•The American Historical Review•1982

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• The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas.

  Gregg Andrews, Emilio Zamora•The American Historical Review•1994

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• Transborder Discourse

  Clara Lomas•Frontiers A Journal of Women…•2004

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• Walls and Mirrors

  David G Gutiérrez•Walls and Mirrors•1995

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• Sex in Revolution

  Jocelyn Olcott, Carlos Monsiváis et al.•Sex in Revolution•2006

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• Beyond Dichotomies

  Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi•Beyond Dichotomies•2002

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• Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986

  David Montejano•Anglos and Mexicans in the Making…•1987

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• Open Borders to a Revolution

  José Luís Ramos, José Luis Martín Ramos•Social History•2014

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• The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas

  Verónica García, Veronica Vasquez Garcia et al.•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1994

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• Refiguring Rhetorical Education

  Kathleen McConnell, Kathleen F McConnell•Quarterly Journal of Speech•2009

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• Vasconcelos and México de Afuera (1928)

  John Skirius•Aztlán A Journal of Chicano Studies•1976

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• Sketches of identities from the Mexico-US border (or the other way around)

  María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba•Comparative American Studies An…•2005

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• Revolution in Texas

  Andrew R Graybill, Benjamin Johnson et al.•Western Historical Quarterly•2005

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• A Texas-Mexican Cancionero, Folksongs of the Lower Border

  Open Access•Arthur L Campa, Américo Paredes•Western Folklore•1976

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• Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies

  Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Claudia Sadowski‐smith et al.•Comparative American Studies An…•2004

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• El Primer Congreso Mexicanista de 1911

  José E Limón•Aztlán A Journal of Chicano Studies•1974

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• The Decolonial Imaginary

  Susan Lee Johnson, Emma Pérez•Western Historical Quarterly•2000

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• Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986

  David R Maciel, David Maciel et al.•Hispanic American Historical Review•1989

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• A Texas-Mexican Cancionero

  Daniel Sheehy, Américo Paredes•Ethnomusicology•1981

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