After the Decolonial by David Lehmann - 9781509537525

After the DecolonialEthnicity, Gender and Social Justice in Latin America\nAuthor(s): David Lehmann\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509537525, 978-1509537525\nSynopsis\nAfter the Decolonialexamines the sources of LatinAmerican decolonial thought, its reading of precursors like Fanon and Levinasand itshistorical interpretations. In extended treatments of the anthropologyof ethnicity, law and religion and of theregions modernculture, Lehmann sets out the bases of a more grounded interpretation, drawinginspiration from Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia andChile, andfrom a lifelong engagement withissues of development, religion and race. The decolonial places race atthe centre of its interpretation of injustice and, together with the multiple other exclusions dividing Latin American societies, traces it to European colonialism. But it has not fully absorbed the uniquelyunsettling nature of Latin American race relations, wh.