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About This Book
"Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three interlocking steps: first, an intellectual history of the concept of Latin America in its natural historical habitatâmid-nineteenth-century redefinitions of empire and the cultural, political, and economic intellectualism; second, a serious and uncompromising critique of the current "Latin Americanism"âwhich circulates in United Statesâbased humanities and social sciences; and, third, accepting that we might actually be stuck with "Latin America, " Tenorio-Trillo charts a path forward for the writing and teaching of Latin American history. Accessible and forceful, rich in historical research and specificity, the book offers a distinctive, conceptual history of Latin America and its many connections and intersections of political and intellectual significance. Tenorio-Trillo's book is a masterpiece of interdisciplinary scholarship.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- ONEÂ Â /Â Â The Connotations of an Idea
- TWO  /  Iberismo and Latinité
- THREEÂ Â /Â Â The Question of Brazil
- FOURÂ Â /Â Â Latino/a and Latin America
- FIVE  /  Singing Latinoamérica
- SIXÂ Â /Â Â US-Centered Latin AmericaâPart 1
- SEVENÂ Â /Â Â US-Centered Latin AmericaâPart 2
- EIGHTÂ Â /Â Â âLatin Americaâ Abides: But How Should Historians Speak It?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index