The Idea of Latin America

The Preface:

 Explain Escobar’s modernity/colonialty research project, as outlined on page xiii) in your own words.Place the modernity/coloniality framework in conversation with the frameworks we’ve discussed so far.

Chapter One:

What does it mean to say America is an invention?

What are the differences Mignolo is making between the “discovery” and the “invention” paradigms? (3)

Page 11. Memorize this page!  Be able to discuss and identify the four domains of “the logic of coloniality.”  
Apply this to your own research interest, as well as to the course logic and framework.

 History (see pages xii,48, 54)

America, Americanity and coloniality (46, 47)

Occidentalism (42)

Chapter Two:

Pachakuti and the colonial wound (8, 53, 74)

 Latin American (59) “as a political project of Creole-Mestizo/a elites

Latinidad

Chapter Three:

 Geography of knowledge

The paradigm of the damnés (106)

Afro- and Indigenous

 Chicanos and la raza cósmica

Page 141: not talking about people but political projects

Postface:  After “America”

Transformation of ideas into realities (151)

The process and coming to consciousness