Latin America is usually thought of as a homogeneous block. Despite many things that the countries from this region share and which provide them with a somewhat shared identity, we must remember that Latin America is also characterized by a great deal of diversity – in geography, language, ethnicity, culture, economy – and this is true even within each country. British historian Peter Burke (2006) observes that the term “Latin America” is full of ambiguities and “is not so neutral as it may seem, but it conveys political associations and implications.” He remembers that when he first came to Brazil, in the 1980s, he was amazed when people talked about “Latin America” as if it were “somewhere else”; in a very similar way, he says, Britons talk about “Europe” and Sicilians talk about “Italy,” as not being a part of it. By drawing attention to the need of being careful when utilizing such term, he reinforces Mignolo’s idea that “Latin America was not and is not a place, a pre-existing entity, but a political project” (p. 7).1
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Bueno, B.O. (2007). Urban Education in Latin America: Section Editor's Introduction. In: Pink, W.T., Noblit, G.W. (eds) International Handbook of Urban Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5199-9_30
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