Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, Guillermo Gómez-Peña declares the new dominant U.S. culture “border culture,” and assesses how Latino culture has infiltrated U.S. culture writ large. U.S. culture has, he argues, become fundamentally multicultural, and the “ [...]

In these texts, Edmundo O’Gorman analyzes the historiography of America, and, in the process, argues that the idea of America has been an invention of history. In “Part 1,” he traces the considerable efforts by historians to uphold [...]

In this text, Leopoldo Zea outlines his vision for the future of Latin American philosophy, explaining how in order to be relevant it must be universally applicable and a product of the specific context of Latin America. Zea begins by arguing that [...]