US Travel Writer E. G. S quier and the Construction of Racialised Geographies in Nineteenth Century Honduras
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7460730 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jose Isaac Lara (Morgan State University, corresponding author), JOSE LARA (0000-0002-4449-9304, Morgan State University USA) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 121-135 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/blar.12597 |
| OpenAlex | W2809109215 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
This article examines the ideological foundations of A merican diplomat E phraim G eorge S quier's N otes on C entral A merica (1855), and its effect on the formation of H onduran identity. I detail the type of racial constructions and judgments S quier made of the distinct ethnic populations, and contextualise them within the nineteenth‐century transnational debate on the origins of mankind and the surge of imperialism. I also argue that S quier's writings played a role in the employment of a series of state‐initiated civilising projects and legislative actions that clearly demonstrate how H onduras was defined both racially and spatially
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Identity (music · Ideology · Immigration · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |