ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |27 pages
Introduction
chapter |25 pages
Latin@s and the “Euro-American Menace”
part |43 pages
Latin@s in World-Historical Perspective
part |31 pages
Decolonization, Afro-Latin@s, and the African Diaspora
part |33 pages
Indigenous People in the Americas
chapter |16 pages
Indigenous Struggles over Autonomy, Land, and Community
chapter |15 pages
Running for Peace and Dignity
part |24 pages
Decolonizing Spiritualities
chapter |16 pages
A Latin@ Jewish Disruption of the Holocaustic U.S.-Centric Constellation of Suffering
chapter |6 pages
Decolonizing Spiritualities
part |49 pages
Latinization and Decolonization