A Post-Occidentalist Manifesto. Review of Walter D. Mignolo's <em> The Idea of Latin America </em> (Malden and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005)

  • Ricardo Salvatore Universidad Torcuato di Tella
Keywords Latin American History, Colonialism, Criticism
Keywords Latin American History, Colonialism, Criticism

Abstract

The author contends that “America” was an “invention” saturated with “coloniality,” that is, conceived at the intersection of the expansion of Europe over the New World, the campaigns to evangelize indigenous peoples, and the racism that emerged from Christian cosmolog

Author Biography

Ricardo Salvatore, Universidad Torcuato di Tella
Ricardo D. Salvatore es catedrático de historia en la Universidad Torcuato di Tella en Buenos Aires. Es el autor de Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era (1820-1860) (Duke University Press, 2003) y de Imágenes de un imperio. Estados Unidos y las formas de representación de Sudamérica (Editorial Sudamericana, 2006). Ha editado varios libros sobre la historia social y cultural de la Argentina y de Latinoamérica y ha recibido numerosas becas, entre ellas, la John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship en 2004.
cover fall 2006
Published
2006-09-01
Issue
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2006): Fall 2006
Section
Reviews / Reseñas