This anthology gathers the work of three generations of Latina/o theologians and philosopher who have taken up the task of transforming their respective disciplines from the standpoint of liberation and what has been called the “decolonial turn” in social theory, theology, and philosophy. This collection is focuses on the different ways in which Latina/o thinkers, activists, and public intellectuals are producing knowledge that addresses the unique social location of Latinas/os in the US. Instead of continuing to be represented, this group of scholars show the unsuspecting and original ways in which Latina/o locations in the US can be generative places for the development of new matrixes of knowledge. The book, thus, articulates a new point of departure for the self-understanding of not simply Latina/os, but also US citizens in this new age of post-colonialism and globalization.
Introduction: Freeing Subjugated Knowledge
Ada María Isasi-Díaz and Eduardo Mendieta
Knowing Reality
Decolonizing Western Epistemology / Building Decolonial Epistemologies
Walter Mignolo
Mujerista Discourse: A Platform for Latinas’ Subjugated Knowledge
Ada María Isasi-Díaz
Methodological Notes toward a Decolonial Feminism
María Lugones
An(other) Invitation to Epistemological Humility: Notes toward a Self-Critical Approach to Counter-Knowledges
Otto Maduro
Latina/o locus historiens
Anti-Latino Racism
Linda Martín Alcoff
The Act of Remembering: The Reconstruction of U.S. Latina/o Identities by U.S. Latina/o Muslims
Hjamil A. Martínez-VÁzquez
If It Is Not Catholic, Is It Popular Catholicism? Evil Eye, Espiritismo, and Santería: Latina/o Religion within Latina/o Theology
Michelle A. González
“Racism is not intellectual”: Interracial Friendship, Multicultural Literature, and Decolonizing Epistemologies
Paula M. L. Moya
Mapping Latina/O Futures
Epistemology, Ethics, and the Time/Space of Decolonization: Perspectives from the Caribbean and the Latina/o Americas
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Thinking Bodies: The Spirit of a Latina Incarnational Imagination
Mayra Rivera
Decolonizing Religion: Pragmatism and Latina/o Religious Experience
Christopher Tirres
The Ethics of (Not) Knowing: Take Care of Ethics and Knowledge Will Come of Its Own Accord
Eduardo Mendieta
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