The New World Looks at Its History. Edited by Archibald R. Lewis and Thomas F. McGann [Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Historians of the United States and Mexico.] (Austin: University of Texas Press for the Institute of Latin American Studies, the University of Texas, 1963. Pp. ix, 220. $4.00.)

The Cold War assumptions of mainstream Latin American studies in the United States were challenged in the 1960s by a new generation of academics that opened up the field to progressive thinking, including Marxism. West Coast intellectuals played a major role in this transformation. These new Latin Americanists rejected the university-government-foundation nexus in the field and emphasized field research that brought them into close relationships with Latin Americans struggling for change and engaging with radical alternatives to mainstream thinking. In the course of this work, they confronted efforts to co-opt them and to discourage and even prevent their field research. Despite this they managed to transform Latin American studies into a field that was intellectually and politically vibrant both in theory and in practice. Los supuestos de la Guerra Fría dominantes en los estudios latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos fueron cuestionados en la década de 1960 por una nueva generación de académicos que abrió el campo al pensamiento progresista, incluso el Marxismo. Los intelectuales de la costa oeste jugaron un papel importante en esta transformación. Estos nuevos latinoamericanistas rechazaron el nexo universidad-gobierno-fundación que caracterizó el campo y enfatizaron la investigación en el terreno que los ubicó en una estrecha relación con los latinoamericanos que luchan por el cambio y se enfrentan con alternativas radicales al pensamiento dominante. En el curso de este trabajo, confrontaron esfuerzos para cooptarlos y desalentar e incluso prevenir su investigación en el terreno. A pesar de esto, lograron transformar los estudios latinoamericanos en un campo que era intelectualmente y políticamente vibrante tanto en la teoría como en la práctica.

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The Second International Congress of Historians of the United States and Mexico

Comparative Studies in Society and History ◽

10.1017/s0010417500000451 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 400-401

Author(s):

Archibald R. Lewis

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

International Congress ◽

American Historical Association ◽

University Of Texas ◽

Mexican Art ◽

University Presses ◽

The University ◽

Private Collections ◽

Second International

The Second International Congress of Historians of the United States and Mexico met at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, November 3–6, 1958. The Congress was sponsored by the University of Texas, the American Historical Association and the Texas State Historical Association, representing U.S. scholars, and by the University of Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History, and the Academy of Historical Sciences of Monterrey, representing Mexico. Included on the program were distinguished anthropologists and historians from Spain, France, Britain, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. In addition special representatives from almost every United States and Mexican university attended the sessions of the Congress. Among those present were José Locarra and Guillermo Cespedes of Spain, Philippe Wolff and François Chevalier of France, Geoffrey Barraclough of Britain, Claudio Sanchez-Albornoz of Argentina, José Honorio Rodrigues of Brazil, A.R.M. Lower of Canada, Sir Keith Hancock of Australia, Edmundo O'Gorman, Antonio Castro Leal, and Daniel Cosío Villegas of Mexico, and Frank H. H. Roberts, Charles J. Bishko, Ray Billington, William Hogan, John S. Galbraith, Robert S. Lopez, Boyd Shafer, and Arthur Whitaker of the United States. Associated with the Congress was a special exhibit of books from the university presses of the United States and Mexico and also an unusual exhibition of Mexican art gathered together from private collections and museums from all over the United States.

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An Introduction to Spoken Bolivian Quechua. By Garland D. Bills, Bernardo Vallejo C. and Rudolph C. Troike [Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies.] (Austin and London: The University of Texas Press, 1969. Pp. vii, 449 Visual aids. $7.50.)

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.2307/980529 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 216-218

Author(s):

John G. Copeland

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

American Studies ◽

Visual Aids ◽

Latin American Studies ◽

University Of Texas ◽

The University

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The Development of Latin-American Studies in the United States, 1939–1945

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.2307/978488 ◽

1947 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 32-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Lewis Hanke

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Latin American ◽

American Studies ◽

The United States ◽

Government Agencies ◽

Latin American Studies ◽

Department Of State ◽

Hispanic Studies ◽

The Coordinator

The period 1939–1945 saw an unprecedented expansion of Latin American studies in the United States. This was partly due to the wartime activities of such government agencies as the Department of State and the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, and to the rising interest in the area approach to academic studies. This development would not have been possible, however, without the continuous concern of the foundations, which had helped to organize scholars in the field on a national basis, had stimulated research in relatively neglected fields, and had provided funds for the compilation and publication of certain basic bibliographical tools. Nor would this expansion have been more than a wartime boom had not the scholars and universities of the country been attracted to Hispanic studies since George Ticknor and William H. Prescott first disclosed their importance over a century ago, and to the Latin American field more particularly since 1900. The expansion was based upon solid elements.

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