Alan McPherson has assembled an excellent collection of nine articles, with his own introduction and conclusion. There are case studies of twentieth- and twenty-first-century anti-Americanism in Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, and Brazil; three transnational studies on race, liberation theology, and political culture; and William O. Walker III’s examination of the relative absence of anti-Americanism in Colombia. Without sharing a common definition of the phenomenon, the authors assume “that anti-Americanism should be treated as an ideology in the cultural sense of the word, a protean set of images, ideas, and practices that both explain why the world is how it is and set forth a justification for future action” (p. 1).
A brief synopsis of the articles gives an idea of the variety of approaches. John Britton argues that Mexicans between 1917 and 1945 attacked specific institutions like banks or oil companies rather than the United States as a nation or...
