La Idea De America Latina

Walter Mignolo posits the urgent need to conceptualize the continent from its margins, in order to rethink identity, power, and the sense of belonging to the Global Majority. What does "Latin America" ​​truly signify? Whom does this category serve? In this incisive essay, Mignolo dismantles the notion of "Latinity" as a geopolitical construct forged in Europe and implanted by nineteenth-century Creole elites. Challenging a homogeneous vision of the continent, he champions the plurality of voices and memories that have historically been silenced--those of Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, and migrants. Adopting a decolonial perspective, Mignolo demonstrates how this idea of ​​Latin America continues to function as a tool of cultural and political domination.