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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Title Statements

Full title :Modernity and "whiteness" / Bolívar Echeverría ; translated by Rodrigo Ferreira.

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.
Edition:English edition

Publication Statements

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

Notes

"First published in Spanish as Modernidad y blanquitud" © Ediciones Era, Mexico, 2010"--Title page verso

The Physical Object

Description:xxiv, 213 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781509533602, 1509533605, 9781509533619, 1509533613
oclc:on1079428800
LC Classification:HN110.5.A8
Dewey Decimal:305.809/08

Subjects

Capitalism Capitalism -- Latin America Civilization, Modern Ethnische Identität Group identity Group identity -- Latin America Identité collective -- Amérique latine Kapitalismus Lateinamerika Latin America multiculturalism Multiculturalism -- Latin America Multiculturalisme -- Amérique latine Multikulturelle Gesellschaft SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology Weißsein White people -- Race identity White people -- Race identity -- Latin … Whites -- Race identity -- Latin America