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020			_a9781405100861
028			_aBrijwasi Book Distributors _b;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092 _c;BW/005604 _d;20/11/2019
082			_a982 MIG
100			_aWalter Mignolo
245			_aThe idea of Latin America _c/Walter Mignolo
260			_aMalden, MA ; Oxford _b: Blackwell Pub. _c, 2005.
300			_axx, 198 pages _c; 24 cm.
365			_b5340
490			_aBlackwell manifestos
505			_aThe Americas, Christian expansion, and the modern/colonial foundation of racism -- "Latin" America and the first reordering of the modern/colonial world -- After "Latin" America : the colonial wound and the epistemic geo-/body-political shift.
520			_aThe term "Latin" America supposes that there is an America that is Latin, which can be defined in opposition to one that is not. This geo-political manifesto revisits the idea of Latinity, charting the history of the concept from its emergence in Europe under France's leadership, through its appropriation by the Creole elite of South America and the Spanish Caribbean in the second half of the nineteenth century, up to the present day." "Reinstating the Indigenous peoples, the enormous population of African descent, and the 40 million Latinos/as in the US that are rendered invisible by the image of a homogeneous Latin America, the author asks what is at stake in the survival of an idea which subdivides the Americas. He explains why an "American Union" similar to the European Union is at this point unthinkable and he insists on the pressing need to leave behind an idea of Latinity which belongs to the Creole/Mestizo mentality of the nineteenth century.
650			_aHistory
655			_aRace relations
700			_aWalter Mignolo
942			_cBOOK