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Forging People explores the way in which Hispanic American thinkers in Latin America and Latino/a philosophers in the United States have posed and thought about questions of race, ethnicity, and nationality, and how they have interpreted the most significant racial and ethnic labels used in Hispanic America in connection with issues of rights, nationalism, power, and identity. Following the first introductory chapter, each of the essays addresses one or more influential thinkers, ranging from Bartolome de Las Casas on race and the rights of Amerindians; to Simon Bolivar's...

• Provides a comprehensive "who's who" guide to medieval philosophers.
  
• Offers a refreshing mix of essays providing historical context followed by 140 alphabetically arranged entries on individual thinkers.
  
• Constitutes an extensively cross-referenced and indexed source.
  
• Written by a distinguished cast of philosophers.
  
• Spans the history of medieval philosophy from the fourth century AD to the...

• Offers a fresh perspective and clearer understanding of Latin American thought and culture, rejecting
  answers based on stereotypes and fear


• Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the philosophical, social, and political elements of Hispanic/Latino
  identity, touching upon anthropology, history, cultural studies and sociology, as well as philosophy


• Written by...

The presence and impact of Hispanics/Latinos in the United States cannot be ignored. Already the largest minority group, by 2050 their numbers will exceed all the other minority groups in the United States combined. The diversity of this population is often understated, but the people differ in terms of their origin, race. language, custom, religion, political affiliation, education and economic status. The heterogeneity of the Hispanic/Latino population raises questions about their identity and their rights: do they really constitute a group? That is, do they have rights as a group, or...

• Provides 61 chapters written by leading experts on the classics of Western thought.
  
• Includes current references to the scholarly literature in addition to a select bibliography of major articles and books.
  
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"What is race? What is ethnicity? Should we think of them as identities? Can they be effectively individuated? How are they related? How do the relations between them influence pressing issues concerned with social identity, gender, racism, assimilation, exploitation, justice, the law, and public policy? And how are the answers to these questions affected by the Black and Latino experience in the United States" From the Preface

This collection of new essays explores the relation between race and ethnicity and its social and political implications. Although much work has been done on...