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

by Grosfoguel,Ramon

• ISBN13: 9781594511356
• ISBN10: 1594511357
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

PART I Introduction
Latin@s and the ``Euro-American Menace'': The Decolonization of the U.S. Empire in the Twenty-First Century	3	(28)
Ramon Grosfoguel
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Jose David Saldivar
PART II Latin@s in World-Historical Perspective
Latin@s: What's in a Name?	31	(10)
Immanuel Wallerstein
``Ser Hispano'': Un Mundo en el ``Border'' de Muchos Mundos	41	(16)
Enrique Dussel
Huntington's Fears: ``Latinidad'' in the Horizon of the Modern/Colonial World	57	(18)
Walter D. Mignolo
PART III Decolonization, Afro-Latin@s, and the African Diaspora
Afro-Latin@ Difference and the Politics of Decolonization	75	(14)
Agustin Lao-Montes
Black Latin@s and Blacks in Latin America: Some Philosophical Considerations	89	(18)
Lewis R. Gordon
PART IV Indigenous People in the Americas
Indigenous Struggles over Autonomy, Land, and Community: Antiglobalization and Resistance in World-Systems Analysis	107	(16)
James V. Fenelon
Thomas D. Hall
Running for Peace and Dignity: From Traditionally Radical Chicanos/as to Radically Traditional Xicanas/os	123	(18)
Roberto Hernandez
PART V Decolonizing Spiritualities
A Latin@ Jewish Disruption of the Holocaustic U.S.-Centric Constellation of Suffering: Toward a Polycentric Project of Spiritualities in a Transmodern Context of Voices	141	(16)
Santiago E. Slabodsky
Decolonizing Spiritualities: Spiritualities That Are Decolonizing and the Work of Decolonizing Our Understanding of These	157	(8)
Laura E. Perez
PART VI Latinization and Decolonization
Sociopolitical Logics and Conflicting Interpretations of ``Latinization'' in the United States	165	(18)
James Cohen
Decolonization from within the Americas: Latin@ Immigrant Responses to the U.S. National Security Regime and the Challenges of Reframing the Immigration Debate	183	(16)
Susanne Jonas
Latin@ Century, Pacific Century: Twenty-First Century Possibilities in World-Systems Perspective	199	(14)
Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
About the Editors and Contributors	213	(3)
Series Page	216