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Rethinking “Latin America”

For the Epistemic Decolonial Turn. Rethinking “Latin America”. Dong Hwan Kim Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese dvk5175@psu.edu 24 th September, 2010. Contents. Terminology West Indies & America Hispanic America, Ibero-America and Latin America Diversity of America

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Rethinking “Latin America”

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  1. For the Epistemic Decolonial Turn Rethinking“Latin America” Dong Hwan Kim Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese dvk5175@psu.edu 24th September, 2010

  2. Contents • Terminology • West Indies & America • Hispanic America, Ibero-America and Latin America • Diversity of America • Race/Ethnicity • Languages • Politics and Economy • America or Abya-Yala?

  3. Terminology (1) • West Indies • Christopher Columbus, 1492 • America • Amerigo Vespucci • Martin Waldseemüller, 1507

  4. Terminology (2) • Hispanic/Spanish America • Countries inhabited by Spanish-speaking populations • Ibero-America • Hispanic America + Brazil(Portuguese) • Latin America • Hispanic America + Brazil + the former French colonies • Michel Chevalier: inhabited by People of “Latin race” • Latin America and the Caribbean • To avoid the oversimplification of the term ‘Latin America’ • UN geoscheme for the Americas

  5. Maps of Countries (1) Hispanic America Ibero-America

  6. Maps of Countries (2) Latin America Latin America and the Caribbean

  7. Diversity of America- Race/Ethnicity • Amerindians • Whites • Mestizos • Mixed White and Amerindian • Mulattoes • Mixed White and Black • Blacks • Zambos • Mixed Black and Amerindian • Asians

  8. Diversity of America- Languages • European Languages • Spanish and Portuguese • French, Dutch, English • German, Italian, Welsh • Indigenous Languages • Quechua, Aymara, Guarani • Nahuatl and Mayan languages • Creole Languages • Haitian Creole

  9. Diversity of America- Politics and Economy Political Diversity Economic Diversity

  10. Plurinationality • 2009 Constitution of Bolivia • Article 1. Bolivia is constituted as a Unitary Social State of Plurinational, Community-Based Law, free, independent, sovereign, democratic, intercultural, decentralized, and with autonomies. Bolivia is founded in plurality and political, economic, juridical, cultural, and linguistic pluralism within the integrating process of the country.

  11. Pluriversality • Perspectives from the borderlands

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