Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
7 - Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
from Part II - The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Through a reading of works by the Cuban Catholic priest Father Félix Varela (1788-1853) that were published in New York during his almost 30 years in that city, this chapter recovers the emergence of Latina/o-led political activism as an identifiable, organized minority in New York City in the 1820s-1840s. It argues that the Protestant/Catholic debates in which Varela participated converted him, and other Latinas/os in New York City at that time, into political agents who confronted anti-immigrant sentiments prevalent in the city, locating Latina/os, such as Varela, at the very heart of US history and the US body politic.
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- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature , pp. 157 - 175Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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