Episode 21 – Our Martí

Published on January 28, 2019 in Book Reviews/Politics/Remember the Show! by Hector Luis Alamo

Happy birthday, Martí! Hector chats with Alfred J. López, professor of English and the director of Latin American and Latino Studies at Purdue University. Prof. López is the author of ‘José Martí: A Revolutionary Life’ (University of Texas Press, 2014), as well as a number of books on postcolonialism. Topics include: Martí (obviously), Marx, poetry, America, colonialism, revolutionaries, gender roles, and Latin America.

Tags: America biography books colonialism Cuba gender roles history journalism Latin America New York City socialism

A Chicago writer now floating on the edge of Las Vegas, Hector is the editor and publisher of Enclave, as well as a guest columnist for Chile’s Prensa Irreverente. He is the former deputy editor for Latino Rebels, as well as the former managing editor for Gozamos, a Latino "artivist" site based in his hometown. He has contributed to RedEye, a Chicago daily geared toward millennials, and La Respuesta, a New York-based site for the Puerto Rican Diaspora, plus a number of publications, including the Huffington Post. He studied history at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where his focus was on ethnic relations in the United States.