Jose Marti, the United States, and Race

One of the most understudied aspects of José Martí's work is how his time in the US affected what he wrote about race and his attitudes toward racial politics. Anne Fountain argues that it was in the US that Martí - confronted by the forces of manifest destiny, the influence of race in politics, the legacy of slavery, and the plight and promise of the black Cuban diaspora - fully engaged with the spectre of racism.