“CONSTRUCTS OF BELONGING: CHARTING LATIN@X PEOPLES WITHIN EUROPEAN NEW WORLD PRINT CULTURE”

Authors

• Teresa Avila

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

Publication Title

Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies

Volume

10

Issue

1

First Page

6

Last Page

32

Abstract

Colonisation is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures, and destroys it. Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1963.

During the fifteenth century Europeans began to explore the seas with the hope of expanded trade routes, locating new resources. As a result, migrating colonial empires rose as sites to cultivate the wealth for and power of European realms throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The establishment of European political and social infrastructure and practices in the Americas established and enacted systems of differentiation integral to the European colonial project and empire building.

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Avila, Teresa, "“CONSTRUCTS OF BELONGING: CHARTING LATIN@X PEOPLES WITHIN EUROPEAN NEW WORLD PRINT CULTURE”" (2019). Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies (JOLLAS). 24.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jollas/24