Member Instituto de Cultura Hispánica (Madrid) (honorary), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Gamma Delta. Served with United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1942-1943.
Decorated commander Order Isabel the Catholic (Spain). The Book: Tree of Hate Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting Relations with the Hispanic World Philip W.Philip Wayne Powell, American Educator, author. He was a student of Herbert Eugene Bolton, prestigious, professor, historian and writer on Hispanic subjects, of the History of the United States, with numerous books on Spanish settlements and explorers. His books stand out and are known: Soldiers, Indians, and Silver: The Northward Advance of New Spain, 1550-1600 and Mexico’s Miguel Caldera: The Taming of America’s First Frontier, 1548-1594. Philip Wayne Powell (United States)Īmerican historian who specialized in the history of the Spanish Viceroyalties, especially of the Southwest of the United States. Spain’s cruelty and ambition, which Powell constantly repeats, were on the same level as his European and American contemporaries. This has managed to distort the image of an empire that reached unparalleled levels of humanitarianism and civilization. “Gratuitously he insults Spain, common sense and historical accuracy” Spain had power for too long and this aroused the fear and envy of European countries and even the United States. One wants to forget that this very writing helped Spain to enact more just laws for Native Americans in the Valladolid Controversy.
Although Bartolomé de las Casas’s book was a pamphlet full of exaggerations, it was used against Spain.
It highlights how Spanish authors were used as propaganda for this legend. In a shameless way it can be found at the root of the construction of numerous national identities, Holland with the example of its anthem, England, Germany and the United States, in addition to the Spanish-American countries, which needed to justify their independence and their current ills. It is very difficult to fight against a Black Legend because of the interests that support it and he uses the Spanish Black Legend as an example. “Unlike other racial, religious or propagandistic prejudices, this legend is seldom recognized as such, and even less often condemned, by the same intellectual leaders who boast of fighting against similar prejudices of race, color or religion” Powell saw similarities between the Spanish Empire and the United StatesĪs if a Tree of Hate fell on him, after the Vietnam War, as happened to the Spanish Empire, he made him write the book.
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