Modernity and "whiteness"

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"In this book, leading Latin American thinker Bolívar Echeverría analyses modern capitalism via the idea of "whiteness"--The way that capitalism totally subsumes traditional identities. But there are alternatives. Echeverría explores the baroque, an element of Latin American identity capable of resisting the homogenizing force of capitalism"--

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Full title :Modernity and "whiteness" / Bolívar Echeverría.

Summary

"In this book, leading Latin American thinker Bolívar Echeverría analyses modern capitalism via the idea of "whiteness"--The way that capitalism totally subsumes traditional identities. But there are alternatives. Echeverría explores the baroque, an element of Latin American identity capable of resisting the homogenizing force of capitalism"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Polity
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781509533633, 150953363X, 9781509533626, 1509533621
oclc:on1089883759
LC Classification:HN110.5.A8
Dewey Decimal:305.809/08

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword Diana Fuentes; Translator's Preface; Introduction; 1 A Definition of Modernity; The novelty of the modern; Modernity and the "challenge" of "neo-technics"; Modernity, capitalism, and Europe; The essence of modernity and actually existing modernity; 2 "Technological Rent" and the "Devaluation" of Nature; 3 Meanings of Enlightenment; The appearance of the subject and the possibility of Enlightenment; Enlightenment as the "destiny" of the West; Enlightenment in myth; Modern Enlightenment; 4 Images of "Whiteness."

5 "American" Modernity: Keys to its Understanding"Feeling and courage": A myth of "American" modernity; Notes on the "natural form"; 6 From Academia to Bohemia and Beyond; 7 Art and Utopia; 8 Sartre from a Distance; The humanism in existentialism; Sartre and Marxism; 9 Where is "the Left" Now?; A; B; C; D; 10 Meditations on the Baroque; Guadalupanismo and the baroque ethos in the Americas; 11 The Mexican '68 and its City; Responses to questions from the audience; 12 Mexican Modernity and Anti-Modernity; Notes; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 A Definition of Modernity

Chapter 2 "Technological Rent" and the "Devaluation…

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Capitalism Capitalism -- Latin America Civilization, Modern Group identity Group identity -- Latin America Identité collective -- Amérique latine Latin America multiculturalism Multiculturalism -- Latin America Multiculturalisme -- Amérique latine SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology White people -- Race identity White people -- Race identity -- Latin …