Overcoming the Other America

José Martí's Immanent Critique of the Unionist Paradigm

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ID6400263
AuthorsJoshua Simon (0000-0003-2196-0564, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume84
Issue1
Pages55-79
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670521000735
OpenAlexW4206037161
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

This article offers a new interpretation of the Cuban intellectual José Martí's international political thought. It argues that Martí's analysis of early US imperialism and call for Spanish American unity are best understood as an immanent critique of the “unionist paradigm,” a tradition of international political thought that originated in the American independence movements. Martí recognized the impediments that racism had placed in the way of both US and Spanish American efforts to stabilize the hemisphere's republics by uniting them under regional institutions. He argued that, in his own time, Anglo-Saxon supremacism had deprived US-led Pan-Americanism of all legitimacy, causing a crisis of international political order in the Americas. In the context of this crisis, he developed a revised, antiracist unionism that, he argued, would free Spanish America's republics from imperial aggression and interstate conflicts, making the region a global model of stable and inclusive self-rule

Context (archaeology · Independence (probability theory · Interpretation (philosophy · Legitimacy · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

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