Latin America In Caricature (Texas Pan American Series)

Latin America in Caricature (Texas Pan American Series)

Review. . . one of the most important books in recent years on hemisphere relations. . . . A bold work that could scarcely have been conceived until recently, Latin America in Caricature is a product of the climate of raised consciousness that has made many privileged white males aware of the hollowness of the stereotypes they have concocted to rationalize domination over blacks, women, and other purportedly less-than-rational beings-stereotypes that they then projected southward so as to justify their assumed rights of hegemony in the hemisphere. -- Fredrick B. Pike - Hispanic American Historical Review?ot many readers will thank the author as he deserves, for he has told us more about ourselves than we perhaps wish to know,