The Idea of Latin America, by Walter Mignolo

Walter Minogolo is seeking a way for the United States to become the 4th continent to make Europe understand the world. Explain what business economics to the capitalism of the American "Continental Trinity Check Christian Cosmology," explaining that the West will be the rest of the results of the world's leading knowledge and classification categories Mignolo creates it by doing this in the following way. These three themes define not how the United States was discovered but how it was invented.

7 "Walter Minolo (Oxford, 2005)" in Latin American Concept reminds us of the concepts of "Lazarina latina" and "Latin America" ​​and highlights the commonality of Europe A fundamental cause to do. Spanish and American white colonies Criollo elite separated them from Indians, Mixed Blood, Blacks. 10 See the classic study of Arthur P. Whitaker, The Western Hemisphere Idea: It Rise and Decline (Ithaca NY, 1954). Florentine Navigator Amerigo Vespucci with the name of "US" used in the first 1507 map Explanation of the land (earlier on the two continents or on the Panama Strait) explains the Europeans early in the 15th and 16th centuries The classic work is still Edmundo Ogoman, Lainventcio ÌndeAme Ì ¬ rica (Mexico City, 1958)

In modern / colonial (M / C) inspired by scholar's work, mainly from Latin America, including Walter Minolo (Argentina), Enrique Düssel (Mexico), Anibal Quigano (Peru), Arturo Escobar It is a theoretical approach) argues for the development and modernization of the concept of modernization, its inference, and is deeply influenced by European centralism. Here in the logic as a guide European century In modern times, this logic not only governs the World Bank, IMF and WTO and other mainstream institutions, but also information for political, economic, social ideas You can also provide a political institution like modern nation also penetrated. 0.5

According to different (now Mignolo, 2005 for the construction of the "Latin American" society) seeking to understand the global structure of Latin American colonial period academic contemporary, called colonial experience in America Offer an important perspective of. Like colonial scholarships, colonial issues are a central theme. European colonization that began in the 15th century appeared with the development of increasingly globalized capitalist structures. This colonial company drastically strengthened the understanding of large European countries and made colonies constitute the source of various raw materials (raw materials) of the new economy. Later colonial processes have greatly changed the relationship between colonists and colonists. Therefore, it emphasizes that the colony is an integral part of modernity.