Your Americanism and Mine: Americanism and Anti-Americanism in the Americas.

The article explores the roots of anti-American sentiment in the Americas. The author argues that the U.S. policy elites, scholars and pundits of the Cold War era used the notion of Anti-Americanism to claim that the nationalist and revolutionary sentiments in Latin American countries like Venezuela and Cuba were not based on actual grievances against U.S. power; rather they were a psychological reaction to modernization. With its legitimacy called into question, the U.S. government painted manifestations of anti-Americanism as fear born from ignorance.