Latino/As in the World-System: Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781594511363)

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.

Author: Ramon Grosfoguel,Nelson Maldonado-Torres,Jose David Saldivar
ISBN-10: 1594511365
ISBN-13: 9781594511363
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2006
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.08w x 0.59d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 73