Santiago Lopez Rios asserts the need to take into consideration correspondence between members of different generations in his article "La genesis de Reivindicacion del conde don Julian a la luz de la correspondencia Americo Castro-Juan Goytisolo." His essay is an important reminder that Americo Castro's ideas about Spain, which had such a profound influence on US
Hispanism, having formed a whole generation of major Hispanists including E.
In the Philippines, Rizal expressed a similar idea, referring to the publishers of La Solidaridad as 'Young Creole men of Spanish descent, Chinese half-breeds, and Malayans; but we call ourselves only Filipinos.' (118) Rizal was even responsible for what may be the first mockery of modern racism: 'It is useless to answer certain objections of some fine writers regarding the skins, more or less brown and the faces with noses, more or less flat [...] Law has no skin, nor reason a nose.' (119) After having disputed notions of patriotism and
Hispanism, as in Canamaque's discourse, the rejection of Feced's version of biological determinist discourse paved the way for nationalism among Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and Filipinos.
Artes y Letras nonetheless has been the subject of various studies, which have tended to focus on its founder, Josefina Silva de Cintron, as well as its role broadcasting discourses of Pan-Americanist feminism and
Hispanism. See: Perez Jimenez (2016, 114-37); Sanchez Korrol (1986, 171-3); Schechter (2011, 91-127); Schlau (2012); Vera-Rojas (2014, 2015, 2016).
The saying went: "Donald places his boys" and it is not inconceivable that the cream of UK
Hispanism was developed because of this, with many of his best students--now mostly retired--having achieved leading academic positions.
For her work, Estrade called her a 'Philippiniste' in the sphere of
Hispanism and Latino-americanism.
A distinguished feminist scholar working in the fields of
Hispanism and Gender Studies, Professor Mayock's professional and scholarly trajectory make her monograph noteworthy for it is the product of the insights of a scholar with academic expertise in the study of literature and the arts who uses that training to analyze the abuse of power in the academic workplace.
137 where Rizal bitterly declared: "The smallness of the advancement that the Filipinos have made in three centuries of
Hispanism is all due, (in my opinion) to the fact that our talented men have died without bequeathing to us nothing more than the fame of their names XXX There is then individual progress or improvement in the Philippines, but there is no national, general progress.