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Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America

State University of New York at Binghamton

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.

Key Words: capitalism • coloniality • Eurocentrism • power • race

International Sociology, Vol. 15, No. 2, 215-232 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/0268580900015002005


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