Latino/as in the World-system: Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire / Edition 1

by Ramon Grosfoguel, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Jose David Saldivar

Overview

Contributors Immanuel Wallerstein, Enrique Dussel, Walter Mignolo, Agustin Lao, Lewis Gordon, James V. Fenelon, Roberto Hernandez, James Cohen, Santiago Slabosky, Susanne Jonas, and Thomas Reifer. By the mid-twenty-first century, white Euro-Americans will be a demographic minority in the United States and Latino/as will be the largest minority (25 percent). These changes bring about important challenges at the heart of the contemporary debates about political transformations in the United States and around the world. Latino/as are multiracial (Afro-latinos, Indo-latinos, Asian-latinos, and Euro-latinos), multi-ethnic, multireligious (Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, indigenous, and African spiritualities), and of varied legal status (immigrants, citizens, and illegal migrants). This collection addresses for the first time the potential of these diverse Latino/a spiritualities, origins, and statuses against the landscape of decolonization of the U.S. economic and cultural empire in the twenty-first century. Some authors explore the impact of Indo-latinos and Afro-latinos in the United States and others discuss the conflicting interpretations and political conflicts arising from the "Latinization" of the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594511356
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/15/2005
Series:	Political Economy of the World-System Annuals , #28
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ramón Grosfoguel, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, José David Saldívar

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction; Introduction Latin@s and the “Euro-American Menace”, Ramón Grosfoguel, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, José David Saldívar; Part II Latin@s in World-Historical Perspective; Chapter 1 Latin@s: What’s in a Name?, Immanuel Wallerstein; Chapter 2 “Ser Hispano”, Enrique Dussel; Chapter 3 Huntington’s Fears, Walter D. Mignolo; Part III Decolonization, Afro-Latin@s, and the African Diaspora; Chapter 4 Afro-Latin@ Difference and the Politics of Decolonization, Agustín Lao-Montes; Chapter 5 Black Latin@s and Blacks in Latin America, Lewis R. Gordon; Part IV Indigenous People in the Americas; Chapter 6 Indigenous Struggles over Autonomy, Land, and Community, James V. Fenelon, Thomas D. Hall; Chapter 7 Running for Peace and Dignity, Roberto Hernández; Part V Decolonizing Spiritualities; Chapter 8 A Latin@ Jewish Disruption of the Holocaustic U.S.-Centric Constellation of Suffering, Santiago E. Slabodsky; Chapter 9 Decolonizing Spiritualities, Laura E. Pérez; Part VI Latinization and Decolonization; Chapter 10 Sociopolitical Logics and Conflicting Interpretations of “Latinization” in the United States, James Cohen; Chapter 11 Decolonization from within the Americas, Susanne Jonas; Chapter 12 Latin@ Century, Pacific Century, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer;