Waves Of Decolonization Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States

In "Waves of Decolonization", David Luis-Brown reveals how, between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization, of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. They did so decades before the decolonization of Africa and Asia in the mid-twentieth century. Analyzing the work of novelists, social scientists, nationalist leaders, and others, such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Claude McKay and Jose Marti, Luis-Brown brings together an array of thinkers who linked local struggles against racial oppression and imperialism to similar struggles in other nations.