Description
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.
Author Info
Ramon Grosfoguel is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author most recently of Colonial Subjects: Puerto Rico in a Global Perspective (University of California 2003). He is a research associate of the Maison des Science de l’Homme in Paris and the Fernand Braudel Center in New York.
Nelson Maldonado-Torres is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jose David Saldivar is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor most recently of Divergent Modernities: Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (Duke 2001).
Contents
PART I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Latin@s and the "Euro-American Challenge": Towards the Decolonization of the US Empire in the 21st Century Ramon Grosfoguel, Nelson Maldonado-Torres and Jose David Saldivar
PART II: Latinos in World-Historical Perspective
Chapter 2: Latin@s in World-History Immanuel Wallerstein
Chapter 3: “Ser-Hispano": Un Mundo En El "Border" De Muchos Mundos Enrique Dussel
Chapter 4: Huntington’s Fears: "Latinidad" in the Colonial Horizon of the Modern/Colonial World Walter Mignolo
PART III: Decolonization, Afro-Latinos and the African Diaspora
Chapter 5: Afro-Latina Difference and the Politics of Decolonization Agustín Lao
Chapter 6: Black Latin@s: Some Philosophical Considerations Lewis Gordon
PART IV: Indigenous People in the Americas
Chapter 7: Indigenous Struggles over Autonomy, Land and Community: Anti-Globalization and Resistance in World Systems Analysis James V. Fenelon and Thomas D. Hall
Chapter 8: Running for Peace and Dignity: From Traditionally Radical Chicanos/as to Radically Traditional Xicanas/os Roberto Hernandez
PART V: Latinization and Decolonization
Chapter 9: Socio-Political Logics and Conflicting Interpretations of “Latinization” in the U.S. James Cohen
Chapter 10: Decolo-n/r-izing the Neo-Colonial Constellation of Suffering Santiago Slabosky
Chapter 11: Decolonization from Within the Americas: Latino Immigrant Responses to the U.S. National Security Regime, and the Challenges of Re-Framing the Immigration Debate Susanne Jonas
Chapter 12,/b>: Latin@ Century, Pacific Century: 21st Century Possibilities in World-Systems Perspective Thomas Reifer