Afrodescendencia and Pan-Americanism in Nineteenth-Century Pan-Antillean Thought

This essay analyzesAutobiographical Notes and Historical Sketches (1892-
1896) by Dominican revolutionary Gregorio Luperón and various written
pieces by Ramón Emeterio Betances to ask the following question: How did
they mobilize African and indigenous Caribbean legacies to justify their Pan-
Antillean and Pan-American proposals? It pays special attention to Luperon’s
narrative of the indigenous, African, and Spanish presence in the Dominican
Republic and Haiti. The author meditates on Luperon’s legacy for those
committed to decolonial projects and critiques of neoliberal globalization in
the twenty-first century Caribbean. What is the role played by our indigenous
and African legacies in the political work undertaken in the Antilles and Latin
America today?