The Idea of Latin America (Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos) by Walter D. Mignolo

By Walter D. Mignolo

The suggestion of Latin America is a geo-political manifesto which insists at the have to depart at the back of an concept which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.

  • Charts the heritage of the idea that of Latin the USA from its emergence in Europe within the moment 1/2 the 19th century via numerous variations to the current day.
  • Asks what's at stake within the survival of an idea which subdivides the Americas.
  • Reinstates the indigenous peoples and migrations excluded by means of similar to a homogenous Latin the USA with outlined borders.
  • Insists at the urgent have to depart at the back of an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.

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