Papers by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Journal of American Ethnic History
Page 1. The Migrations of Arturo Schomburg: On Being Antillano, Negro, and Puerto Rican in New Yo... more Page 1. The Migrations of Arturo Schomburg: On Being Antillano, Negro, and Puerto Rican in New York 1891-1938 JESSE HOFFNUNG-GARSKOF HISTORIANS REMEMBER Arturo Alfonso Schomburg principally for his magnificent ...
The American Historical Review, 2018
The Familiar Made Strange, 2017
Estudios afrolatinoamericanos
Current History, 2022
A new history of the intertwined stories of Cuba and the United States operates at the human scal... more A new history of the intertwined stories of Cuba and the United States operates at the human scale to provide fresh perspectives on the impacts of international politics on Cubans’ everyday lives, from the Spanish colonial era through the heyday of US imperialism to the present.
Social History, 2011
This article traces the involvement of three men of low social rank and partial African ancestry ... more This article traces the involvement of three men of low social rank and partial African ancestry in the evolution of liberal politics in Puerto Rico during the final decades of Spanish colonial rule. In both literary and political writings Ramón Marín, Sotero Figueroa and Francisco Gonzalo Marín argued that social equality should be at the centre of colonial reforms. Yet
Hispanic American Historical Review, 2009
American Anthropologist, 2004
New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 2020
Translating the Americas, 2017
he origins of area, foreign language, and international studies centers on campuses in the United... more he origins of area, foreign language, and international studies centers on campuses in the United States stem from an “elite consensus” in the late 1950s that international expertise was an important condition for successful foreign policy, including diplomacy, military engagements, and espionage. This consensus has since been shattered, with the result that this unique system of federal funding for the projects to which most of us have dedicated our professional lives is imperiled. The alternative to a policy establishment that is informed about the world might be a policy establishment that is dangerously ignorant.
New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids
Journal of American History, 2010
... in Washington Heights and Cristo Rey lend immeasurably to what I am able to tell about the ci... more ... in Washington Heights and Cristo Rey lend immeasurably to what I am able to tell about the cities of Santo Domingo and New York ... I am deeply indebted to David Gutierrez, Rosario Espinal, Dan Czit-rom, Colin Wayne Leach, Christopher Mitchell, Robin Derby, Donna Gabaccia ...
The American Historical Review, 2021
This essay offers a reappraisal of the racial politics of the nineteenth-century Cuban independen... more This essay offers a reappraisal of the racial politics of the nineteenth-century Cuban independence struggle through an analysis of the experience, as migrants, of Rafael Serra and other Afro-descendant activists in New York. Serra was the leader of a community that worked with José Martí to create the Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC). The author makes use of digital tools for network visualization and mapping to illustrate the evidence of both race-based (diasporic), class-based, and nationalist social networks among Serra’s constituents. These networks, created against a backdrop of highly localized residential segregation, facilitated a range of political strategies including the creation of race-based organizations, alliances with African Americans, and the more famous cross-racial coalitions of the PRC. Such strategies were not mutually exclusive, as has sometimes been presumed, but rather mutually dependent. In presenting this evidence, the author responds to recent work by Put...
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Papers by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof