After the Decolonial: Ethnicity, Gender and Social Justice in Latin America
David Lehmann, "After the Decolonial: Ethnicity, Gender and Social Justice in Latin America"
English | ISBN: 150953752X | 2022 | 252 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 150953752X | 2022 | 252 pages | PDF | 2 MB
After the Decolonial examines the sources of Latin American decolonial thought, its reading of precursors like Fanon and Levinas and its historical interpretations. In extended treatments of the anthropology of ethnicity, law and religion and of the region’s modern culture, Lehmann sets out the bases of a more grounded interpretation, drawing inspiration from Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia and Chile, and from a lifelong engagement with issues of development, religion and race.
The decolonial places race at the centre of its interpretation of injustice and, together with the multiple other exclusions dividing Latin American societies, traces it to European colonialism. But it has not fully absorbed the uniquely unsettling nature of Latin American race relations, which perpetuate prejudice and inequality, yet are marked by
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