Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America ed. by Jerome C. Branche (review)
The authors’ approach allows the readers to judge for themselves what sort of man Serra was. True, each reader will react differently to what he or she reads, and thus may support Spiegel’s criticisms about the tendency to make the past reflect the present. For their part, Beebe and Senkewicz admit Serra was a “complex” man (37). Even so, they give readers the opportunity to make their own judgments.