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Latin American Cultural Identity: From Theoretical Definitions to Decolonial Resistance

Abstract:

Defining what is typical of American culture has been an arduous task of historical construction and reconstruction, in which various social disciplines intervene that, from a holistic and interdisciplinary perspective, have evaluated the processes of struggle and resistance of the colonial foundations that prevail in the region. However, the global economic system, cultural homogenization and the modern-Western logos impose hierarchical, racial, excluding and totalizing categories that redefine culture and deny indigenous identity, creating a permanent dialectic between what is one's own and what is foreign. The article, developed under a hermeneutic-documentary approach, analyzes the Latin American cultural identity from its complexities and asymmetries, understanding that it is from these tensions that they can become aware of spaces to find one's own, dialoguing with otherness, which allows advance towards social resistance, whose horizon is liberation.