Abstract
The term “Latin America”, coined in the nineteenth century, encodes multiple understandings of this “region”. Although the Latin American region is salient in Canada and the USA for cultural, economic, and political reasons, there is little reflection on the meaning of this term. This paper traces the evolution of this “region”, showing that the relationships and subjectivities involved in its definition have changed such that the imagined homogeneity that underlies its definition is called into question. At the same time, the northern edge of the “region”, marked by the US–Mexican border, has become porous to an extent that challenges the bifurcation of the continent into America and Latin America. Finally, it is argued that the separation of America into two is anachronistic in the twenty-first century, and the concept of Nuestra América put forth by Jose Martí over a century ago finally is becoming a reality.
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