Imperial educación : race and republican motherhood in the nineteenth-century Americas

In the long nineteenth century, Argentine and Cuban reformers invited white women from the United States to train teachers as replacements for their countries’ supposedly unfit mothers. Imperial Educación examines representations of mixed-race Afro-descended mothers in literary and educational texts from the Americas during an era in which governing elites were invested in reproducing European cultural values in their countries’ citizens. Thomas Genova analyzes the racialized figure of the republican mother in nineteenth-century literary texts in North and South America and the Caribbean, highlighting the ways in which these works question the capacity of Afro-descended women to raise good republican citizens for the newly formed New World nation-states. Considering the work of canonical and noncanonical authors alike, Genova asks how the allegory of the national family―omnipresent in the nationalist discourses of the Americas―reconciles itself to the race hierarchies upon which New World slave and postslavery societies are built. This innovative study is the first book to consider the hemispheric relations between race, republican motherhood, and public education by triangulating the nation-building processes of Cuba and Argentina through U.S. empire. New World Studies "In the long nineteenth century, Argentine and Cuban reformers invited white women from the United States to train teachers as replacements for their countries' supposedly unfit mothers. Imperial Educación examines representations of mixed-race Afro-descended mothers in literary and educational texts from the Americas during an era in which governing elites were invested in reproducing European cultural values in their countries' citizens. Thomas Genova analyzes the racialized figure of the republican mother in nineteenth-century literary texts in North and South America and the Caribbean, highlighting the ways in which these works question the capacity of Afro-descended women to raise good republican citizens for the newly formed New World nation-states. Considering the work of canonical and noncanonical authors alike, Genova asks how the allegory of the national family--omnipresent in the nationalist discourses of the Americas--reconciles itself to the race hierarchies upon which New World slave and postslavery societies are built. This innovative study is the first book to consider the hemispheric relations between race, republican motherhood, and public education by triangulating the nation-building processes of Cuba and Argentina through U.S. empire"-- ProQuest Ebook Central resource page, viewed February 8, 2022 In the long nineteenth century, Argentine and Cuban reformers invited white women from the United States to train teachers as replacements for their countries? supposedly unfit mothers. Imperial Educación examines representations of mixed-race Afro-descended mothers in literary and educational texts from the Americas during an era in which governing elites were invested in reproducing European cultural values in their countries? citizens.0Thomas Genova analyzes the racialized figure of the republican mother in nineteenth-century literary texts in North and South America and the Caribbean, highlighting the ways in which these works question the capacity of Afro-descended women to raise good republican citizens for the newly formed New World nation-states. Considering the work of canonical and noncanonical authors alike, Genova asks how the allegory of the national family?omnipresent in the nationalist discourses of the Americas?reconciles itself to the race hierarchies upon which New World slave and postslavery societies are built. This innovative study is the first book to consider the hemispheric relations between race, republican motherhood, and public education by triangulating the nation-building processes of Cuba and Argentina through U.S. empire Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Introduction 1. Republican Motherhood and Citizen Educación 2. Mothers, Moors, Mohicans, and Mulattas in Mansilla’s Miranda 3. Una Maestra Norteamericana in the “South” 4. Foundational Frustrations in Cirilo Villaverde, Mary Mann, and Martín Morúa Delgado 5. “La Dignidad de la Mujer Cubana”: Racialized Gender Allegory and the Intervención Americana Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Recent Books in the Series In the long nineteenth century, Argentine and Cuban reformers invited white women from the United States to train teachers as replacements for their countries’ supposedly unfit mothers. __Imperial Educación__ examines representations of mixed-race Afro-descended mothers in literary and educational texts from the Americas during an era in which governing elites were invested in reproducing European cultural values in their countries’ citizens. New World Studies "This book considers the hemispheric relations between race, republican motherhood, and public education by analyzing representations of mixed-race Afro-descended mothers in the Americas during an era in which governing elites were invested in reproducing European cultural values"-- Provided by publisher