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The Idea of Latin America
ISBN: 978-1-405-15017-0
February 2009
Wiley-Blackwell
224 pages
The Idea of Latin America is a geo-political manifesto which insists on the need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.
* Charts the history of the concept of Latinity from its emergence in Europe under France’s leadership through to the present day.
* Reinstates the indigenous peoples, the population of African descent and the 40 million Latino/as in the US that are excluded by the image of a
homogenous Latin America.
* Asks what is at stake in the survival of an idea which subdivides the Americas.
* Insists on the pressing need to leave behind an idea of Latinity which belongs to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.