Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America
2000/06/01 by Aníbal Quijano · 62 citations
Social Sciences · #American Constitutional Law and Politics #Political Theory and Influence #Religion and Society Interactions
paper · doi:10.1177/0268580900015002005
openalex publication_date 2000/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
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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