Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America
Abstract
The globalization of the world is, in the first place, the culmination of a process that began with the constitution of America and world capitalism as a Euro-centered colonial/modern world power. One of the foundations of that pattern of power was the social classification of the world population upon the base of the idea of race, a mental construct that expresses colonial experience and that pervades the most important dimensions of world power, including its specific rationality: Eurocentrism. This article discusses some implications of that coloniality of power in Latin American history.
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The coloniality of power refers to racial hierarchies structurally embedded in liberal capitalism for so long that it continues to impact the global political economy.
“The coloniality of power, coined by Quijano (2000), refers to racial hierarchies structurally embedded in liberal capitalism for so long that it continues to impact the global political economy.”
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Science as an academic subject taught in K-12 schools is founded on the pillars of the colonial matrix of power.
“That is, science as an academic subject taught in K-12 schools is founded on the pillars of the colonial matrix of power (CMP, Quijano, 2000), which highlights that sexism, racism, patriarchy, authority, and settler colonialism are grounded in the dominance of a few white men who produced science.”
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- Authors
- Quijano, A.
- Affiliations
- Binghamton University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Quijano, Aníbal
- Venue
- International Sociology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2000-06
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 215-232
- ISSN
- 0268-5809 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7242
- OpenAlex
- W2030105479
- Cited by
- 3,190
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 581 · 2025: 485 · 2024: 424 · 2023: 413 · 2022: 318 · 2021: 279 · 2020: 198 · 2019: 119 · 2018: 83 · 2017: 56 · 2016: 60 · 2015: 38 · 2014: 39 · 2013: 33 · 2012: 24
- FWCI
- 6.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Sociology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Latin American Cultural Politics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Demography › Historical Studies in Latin America
- Keywords
- coloniality of power, Eurocentrism, race, racial classification, global capitalism, globalization, colonial experience, Latin American history, global power
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