Summary Of Our America By Marti

In examining Martí’s essay, ‘Our America’, there is an implication that the intellectual elites in the United States perceived racial difference that meant inability. Martí suggests that ‘the European nor the Yankee could provide the key to the Spanish American riddle’ leading to the creation of ‘bookshelf races’. Referring to the race problem as the riddle of Latin America, Martí is suggesting that race was a problem for predominantly white societies, which they could not resolve. It is interesting that these nations are the large powers of the modern colonial world. Martí implies that the alternative for North American intellectuals was to creation a myth of racial inferiority, which is evident in a variety of literature. Starting