Walter D Mignolo: 46 books
The Darker Side of Western Modernity
Global Futures, Decolonial Options
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality...
Local Histories/Global Designs
Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy...
by Rodolfo Kusch, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an...
On Decoloniality
Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with...
Imperial Subjects
Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race and ethnicity. As Imperial Subjects demonstrates, from the early years of Spanish and Portuguese rule, understandings of race and ethnicity were fluid. In this collection, historians offer nuanced interpretations...
Thinking from the Underside of History
Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2000
Enrique Dussel's writings span the theology of liberation, critiques of discourse ethics, evaluations of Marx, Levinas, Habermas, and others, but most importantly, the development of a philosophy written from the underside of Eurocentric modernist teleologies, an ethics of the impoverished, and the...
The Art of Transition
Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2001
The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what...
Las hijas de Juan
Daughters Betrayed
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse...
by Marc Becker, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that the government address Indigenous demands for land ownership, education, and economic development. This uprising was a milestone in the history of Ecuador’s...
Racial Revolutions
Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. In *Racial Revolutions—*the first book-length study of racial formation...
Battling for Hearts and Minds
Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2006
Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a 1988 plebiscite. Steve J. Stern provides a...
Reckoning with Pinochet
The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America’s “dirty war” dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to...
The Tribute of Blood
Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America’s largest nation. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive...
Images at War
Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2001
“If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance.” So writes Serge Gruzinski in the introduction to Images at War, his striking...