Freedom in Latin America has been reframed as freedom to assimilate into whiteness

Evidence

There, “living free” has come to mean more or less free of commitments to an insurgent politics with respect to land claims, resource allocation, or indigenous or historical rights. One may be free to be enwhitened, to become white-like, even white, by acquiring education, becoming Christian, working and recreating as those of European descent do, consuming according to their norms of desire and expectation, to their structures of sensibility and sentiment, to the norms of literacy and their attendant forms of “legitimate cultural memory” (to use Canclini’s terms), in short, to their preference schemes. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1224

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines how ‘living free’ was exported and warped in the Latin American context to mean freedom to assimilate, not political freedom.
• SEED: Article angle: how the banner ‘live free or die’ becomes an engine of assimilation and erasure when exported.