Historical materialist analysis of the construction of Hispanic civilization: from the conquest to the viceroyal period to the balkanization of the empire
Hispanic contributions to US independence and its national project: Manifest Destiny to the Civil Rights Movement
Ideological formation and construction of national identities after independence: Nacionalismo, Latinoamericanismo, Indigenismo, Bolivarismo, etc.
US imperialism in Hispanic America: Monroe Doctrine to Operation Condor
Hispanic Catholic theology and philosophy: from La Escuela de Salamanca to Liberation Theology to Gustavo Bueno’s Materialismo Filosófico
Baroque modernity and the aesthetic dimension of Hispanic cultural life
History and legacy of the Catholic Church in America: from Jesuit utopianism to conflicts with freemasonry and anti-clericalism
The Amerindian question in Hispanic Marxist thought, from Mariategui and APRA to Bolivar Echeverría and the EZLN
What is the legacy of El Movimiento? Chicano radicalism and it’s wider relationship to the 60’s and 70’s third worldist/maoist left and the subsequent New Communist Movement
The question of identity: Hispanic, Chicano, Latino, Latinx, ______-American?
The position of the Hispanic diaspora within the American national question
Chicano labor history and the making of the Mexican-American working class
The War on Drugs, “narco terrorism” and its Cold War origins
21st century Hispanic and Iberophone geopolitics in the age of multipolarity
The economics and politics of mass migration and border policy
Hispanic-American Cold War, guerrilla warfare, armed struggle, foco theory and the military strategy of national liberation
Development, dependency and imperialism in the Third World
Hispanic Catholic conservatism in the American “culture war”, Hispanics 4 Trump?
Theory and practice of socialist governance: Mexico’s 4T, Cuban Revolution, Chinese Market-Socialism, National-Popular Developmentalism (Perón, Cardenas, etc.)
Critique of the postcolonial and decolonial “compatible left” and the Academic-NGO-State Department apparatus of #Woke Empire
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