If being mestizo represents, above all else, a racial and cultural mix, then Latin Americans take this to its furthest and fullest extent, in terms of their culture, society and politics. –  Claudio Chipana – People of mixed heritage, mestizos, are a challenge to racial purity and the idea of […]

Only a radical knowledge, like philosophy, can provoke an equally radical change. Sure, not all philosophy is equal, and not all philosophers are interested in a transformation as stated by Marx. But the bottom line is the kind of philosophy that you are professing.   Claudio Chipana   In an […]

A Latin-American is someone who belongs to, or is descended from Latin America, the conjunction of countries which mostly speak Spanish or Portuguese, without excluding the indigenous languages.   Claudio Chipana   We are Latin-Americans because we come from that great region south of the Rio Bravo, that region which […]

Identity seen in a concrete and real way, for example if we speak of social and cultural identities, implies not only the similarities within oneself but also differences within a community, nation or state.   Claudio Chipana Gutiérrez   The purpose is not to give a final and finished definition […]