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The Idea of Latin America
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The Idea of Latin America is a geo-political manifesto which insists on the need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.
- Charts the history of the concept of Latin America from its emergence in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century through various permutations to the present day.
- Asks what is at stake in the survival of an idea which subdivides the Americas.
- Reinstates the indigenous peoples and migrations excluded by the image of a homogenous Latin America with defined borders.
- Insists on the pressing need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.
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Yes, you can access The Idea of Latin America by Walter D. Mignolo in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & 19th Century History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: Uncoupling the Name and the Reference
- 1 The Americas, Christian Expansion, and the Modern/Colonial Foundation of Racism
- 2 “Latin” America and the First Reordering of the Modern/Colonial World
- 3 After “Latin” America: The Colonial Wound and the Epistemic Geo-/Body-Political Shift
- Postface: After “America”
- Notes
- Index