Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850–1975 (review)
The rapid development of the U.S. university system from a collection of finishing schools to the research behemoths that had become a primary platform for research about Latin America by the time of the Vietnam War is one of the important chapters in the cultural history of the Americas. That development provides the basis for two important questions that Helen Delpar asks here: What were the key turning points in the history of academic scholarship about Latin America as U.S. universities expanded into their modern form? How did those universities articulate knowledge about the communities collectively known as "Latin America" ?