Routledge Latino/as in the World-system: Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire: 28 (Political Economy of the World-System Annuals)

Product Description 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. About the Author Ramón Grosfoguel is associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Colonial Subjects: Puerto Rico in a Global Perspective (University of California, 2003). He is a research associate of the Maison des Science de l’Homme in Paris and the Fernand Braudel Center, in New York. Nelson Maldonado-Torres is assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. José David Saldívar is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is editor most recently of Divergent Modernities: Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (Duke, 2001).