Geometric Denazification

Not really, this preserves the same problem of methodological nationalism except it expands it to the Americas south of the Río Grande writ large. Whatever we might identify as an economic experience of “latinidad” is directly tied to the “latinos” in the U.S. through migration circuits and the dependency of many families (and tbh, full on national economies) south of the Río on their relatives to the north sending money and resources. This is also after all a phenomenon that is reinforced by and continues to reinforce the hegemony of the dollar in this hemisphere, and along with it the push and pull factors of migration like hyperinflation of home currencies versus the outsized purchasing power of wages paid in the dollar.

If we go back to actual intelligent theorists of the economics of imperialism in the Americas, like Ruy Mauro Marini for example, many of them understood that the politics of the Monroe Doctrine is meant to preserve Latin America as a labor pool for the North and the West as a whole, which means that immigrants are part of that phenomenon even when they move. This is a necessary framework for understanding the actual motives of the deportation regime for example, which isn’t meant to actually eliminate all latinos but serves as a form of brute force labor arbitrage especially bc once deported the migrant workers often enter the worst and most precarious pools of labor in whatever country they’re sent to (think the maquiladoras).

The American Discovery of Europe by Jack D. Forbes

Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

The Colonizer’s Model of the World by James Morris Blaut

The Darker Side of Western Modernity by Walter Mignolo

Orientalism by Edward Said

The Invention of Africa by V.Y. Mudimbe

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