Week Eight: Mignolo: The Idea of Latin America pp. 82-88

1.     Colonialism:  p. 83

2.     “explicit [colonial] projects described in positive terms, like civilization, development and democracy” p. 84  NB:  remember the Maggot Brain (and think, think, it ain’t illegal yet, especially in terms of language, and shows like “democracy now”)

3.     Eurocentrism:  p. 84

4.     Modernity:  p. 84

5.     Colonization of Time:  p. 84

6.     Colonialism (Fanon):  p. 84

7.     “The simple difference was how global designs were received—not conceived—by people imbued with other histories and speaking different languages.”  p. 85

8.     Decolonization:  political not epistemic, p. 85, post Césaire, Fanon, and 1990s, and “independence” p. 86

9.     “Conceiving of themselves as a ‘Latin’ race”  p. 86 and independence and nation-state building p. 86

10.  Class and Europe p. 87

11.  Race and the Americas p. 87-88

12.  Pay special attention to note 33 on page 172-3 in relation to the rhetoric of modernity and the logic of coloniality