Voyage to the jungle: the imaginary, self-redemption, and Eurocentrism

The author explores how Latin American identities were forged through the European gaze: first by the eyes of the conqueror and later by the creoles, who by necessity must incorporate First Nations and Blacks in a romantic and racist story of miscegenation, in which the European contribution equals civilization and progress. To understand how that narrative imposes itself, the author uses the analytic framework of modernity-coloniality-decoloniality.