The Latin American Challenge to U.S. Scholarship in Latin America
by Ronald H. Chilcote
[Ronald H. Chilcote, a founder and the managing editor of Latin American Perspectives since its beginning, has concentrated his fieldwork on Latin America, especially Brazil, and its ties to the Iberian Peninsula and in 1960 and 1961 studied at the University of Lisbon and University of Madrid. In Lisbon he wrote journalistic pieces on the Portuguese opposition to the Salazar dictatorship and made contacts with African students who fled to Paris and eventually joined liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies. Eventually he wrote a book, Portuguese Africa (1967), and was elected a fellow of the African Studies Association (ASA). His African work led to a Portuguese ban on his work and any return to Portugal. Thus he turned to Brazil and became involved in the early formation of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). With Martin Legassick (1971) he published a critique of the elitism and biases of the ASA after disruptions at its 1969 international conference in Montreal.
In 1973 he published the following critique of LASA, which includes coverage of its founding in 1966, its first national conference in 1968, and the significant changes after its 1970 national conference in Washington, DC. This critique originally appeared in URLA Newsletter just prior to the third LASA conference in Madison in May 1973 and after the conference in the LASA Newsletter (June 1973). We reproduce it here because it reflects the generational conflict among Latin Americanists and the changes since 1966 that were shaping LASA at the time.]
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