Latino/as in the World-system

Contributors Immanuel Wallerstein Enrique Dussel Walter Mignolo Agustin Lao Lewis Gordon James V. Fenelon Roberto Hernandez James Cohen Santiago Slabosky Susanne Jonas and Thomas Reifer. By the mid-twenty-first century white Euro-Americans will be a demographic minority in the United States and Latino/as will be the largest minority (25 percent). These changes bring about important challenges at the heart of the contemporary debates about political transformations in the United States and around the world. Latino/as are multiracial (Afro-latinos Indo-latinos Asian-latinos and Euro-latinos) multi-ethnic multireligious (Jewish Catholic Protestant Muslim indigenous and African spiritualities) and of varied legal status (immigrants citizens and illegal migrants). This collection addresses for the first time the potential of these diverse Latino/a spiritualities origins and statuses against the landscape of decolonization of the U.S. economic and cultural empire in the twenty-first century. Some authors explore the impact of Indo-latinos and Afro-latinos in the United States and others discuss the conflicting interpretations and political conflicts arising from the Latinization of the United States.