Iván Márquez has gathered in this book a wide range of excerpts from diverse Latin American contributions to social and political thought. He offers to the English-speaking audience of teachers and students a valuable sourcebook of key works by Latin American intellectuals, politicians, and activists translated into English. In his words, “this one is not only on Latin America but also from and of Latin America” (p. xii).
The editor has selected a variety of records (narratives, essays, theoretical and analytical texts) concerning the different processes of social and economic transformations that have occurred in Latin America during the last four decades. The excerpts are brought together in several thematic collections: resistance and liberation, including student, indigenous, and feminist movements; liberation theology and pedagogy, under the influence of the Council of Vatican II’s proposals; dependency theory; guerrilla movements; and nationalism, democracy, and neoliberalism in the post – Cold War era...
