The Idea of Latin AmericaThe term "Latin" America supposes that there is an America that is Latin, which can be defined in opposition to one that is not. This geo political manifesto revisits the idea of Latinity, charting the history of the concept from its emergence in Europe under France's leadership, through its appropriation by the Creole lite of South America and the Spanish Caribbean in the second half of the nineteenth century, up to the present day. Reinstating the