La herida colonial y la opción decolonial
The term "Latin America" suggests that there is an America that is Latin, defined by opposition to one that is not. In this brilliant geopolitical manifesto, Walter Mignolo takes up the idea of "Latinity" and follows up on the concept from birth in a Europe in which France was the dominant power to the present day, through the appropriation of him by the Creole elite of South America and the Hispanic Caribbean in the second half of the nineteenth century.
From the current revaluation of Aboriginal peoples, the large population of African descent and the forty million people of Latin origin residing in the United States, eclipsed after the image of a homogeneous Latin America, the author wonders what elements come into play in the survival of an idea that subdivides the American continent. Mignolo also explains why an "American Union" similar to the European Union is unthinkable...read more
