A Pan American Educational Curriculum and the Bond of Diversity in Latin America and the Caribbean"

The purpose of this article is to address the intellectual Caribbean heritage from the convivialist perspective to propose a Pan-American educational curriculum that reflects regional unity amid diversity as a framework of its ethnic, racial, and cultural forms of expression. This article takes issue with contemporary scholarship that argues that regional unity in Latin America and the Caribbean is based on the homogenization of values, ethno-cultural stratification, and diffuse policies of intercultural legal recognition. I offer a contrasting perspective, arguing that the utopias of Latin America and the Caribbean are a vivid expression of powerful bonds of unity that are embedded in cultural diversity. The exegesis is combined into a coherent theoretical framework with two standpoints: 1) a decolonial perspective, and 2) a methodology of intertextual analysis that avoids anachronism and decontextualization by considering interwoven sources from different historical moments to discover shared lines of interpretation. The exposition traces these concepts based on case studies such as the Pan-Americanism of Simón Bolívar, the anti-imperialism of José Martí, the anti-utilitarianism of José Enrique Rodó, the slave emancipation of Cyril Lionel Robert James, the racial decoloniality of Aimé Césaire, the Calibanism of José Fernández Retamar, the convivialism of the Andean Ayllu, and the utopia of cultural reconciliation of authors such as Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Gabriela Mistral, Alfonso Reyes, and José Lezama Lima, among others.