ABSTRACT
We open with Kyle Doherty’s “Defining the Revolution: Afro-Cuban Intellectuals and the Doctrine of Martí,” a rereading of José Martí’s reception among anticolonial African American intellectuals. Doherty’s argument follows the trail of research on Martí’s role as a reference point for popular expressions of nationalism in the Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, a topic associated with the work of Gerald Poyo or Lillian Guerra. Doherty further considers the importance of Martí’s republicanism and his wager on a republic “con todos y para el bien de todos”1 and their influence on the antiracist discourses of black intellectuals like Sotero Figueroa in Puerto Rico or Rafael Serra in Cuba.
