Mis comentarios sobre “Eurocentrism 21st Century: The King and the Colonial Vassal” provocaron algunas reacciones immediatas. Una de ellas, pregunta por qué escribo en inglés sobre estos temas. En los próximos días traduciré el artículo al castellano y responderé a esta pregunta.
En lo que sigue, hago algunas aclaraciones dirigidas a preguntas y objeciones que se […]

A while ago, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek stated that when someone says Eurocentrism “every self-respecting postmodern leftist intellectual has as violent a reaction as Joseph Goebbels had to culture: to reach for a gun, hurling accusations of proto-fascist Eurocentrist cultural imperialism.” However, he asked himself, “is it possible to imagine a leftist appropriation of the […]

During one pleasant summer night Leo Ching, Ralph Litzinger and I where chatting about the quite interesting issue of Vanity Fair, published in July of 2007 and edited by Bono.
The issue received quite a bit of attention.
The conversation moved from Bono’s “crusade” to Bill and Melinda Gates in cooperation with the Rockefeller Foundation’s […]

There is a recurrent blindness among readers and commentators of The Idea of Latin America. Although in the third part of the book I argued that “After” Latin America is the work of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Andean, of Indigenous intellectuals and political projects and that Latinos and Latinas in the US also contribute to dismantling […]

My friend Roger, from Brazilia, sent me this site about the growing presence of Afro-Latin Americans, as the saying goes.
There is an interesting map, that I highlight here for your easy access.
It will be interesting to have a similar map tracing the European migration to—let’s say to simplify matters—America. Do you have […]