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- Title
"¡BIENVENIDO, MISTER ADAMS!": ANTI-CATHOLICISM, THE BLACK LEGEND, AND RACIAL POLITICS IN THE FOUNDING OF AMERICANSPANISH RELATIONS.
- Authors
FOSTER, TIMOTHY
- Abstract
This article examines the journals of the future American presidents John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, during their travels in Spain in 1779-80. Their negative cultural observations about Spain reveal anti-Catholic sentiment typical of Black Legend thinking. The journals can be better understood in the context of the troubled diplomatic history between the emerging power of the United States and the declining Spanish Empire, and by thinking about the hemispheric positioning of the U.S. in the Monroe Doctrine. In this context, the anti-Hispanic opinions of the Adamses become even more significant, revealing cracks in the Enlightenment spirit that gave rise to the country.
- Subjects
ANTI-Catholicism; SPAIN-United States relations; ADAMS, John, 1735-1826; ADAMS, John Quincy, 1767-1848; PRESIDENTS of the United States; BLACK Legend (Spanish history); MONROE doctrine; TRAVEL
- Publication
Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment, 2017, Vol 40, Issue 2, p269
- ISSN
0163-0415
- Publication type
Article