ABSTRACT
Latinx Studies’ approach to the global is multifold. It includes an awareness and deep criticism of colonial and capitalist global expansions that have led to the systematic oppression, exploitation, and genocide of indigenous, mestizo, and Latinx subjects. the scholarship seeks to identify how Latinx cultural phenomena interface with cultural phenomena created by global-Other communities in its transculturative fashioning of music, art, literature, films and so much more. For Latinx Studies scholars, the concept of the global goes hand in hand with conquest, colonization, empire building, imperialism, and capitalist neoliberalism. Latinx Studies scholars consider localized, material effects of corporate globalization practices on different regions of the US: from the US/Mexico borderlands to the New England states and beyond. Policies that favor global corporate interests impact the everyday lives of Latinx communities within the US and its commonwealth countries such as Puerto Rico.
