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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La colonialidad es uno de los elementos constitutivos y especí?cos del patrón mundial de poder capitalista. Se funda en la imposición de una clasi?cación racial/étnica de la población del mundo como piedra angular de dicho patrón de poder y opera en cada uno de los planos, ámbitos y dimensiones, materiales y subjetivas, de la existencia social cotidiana y a escala societal.Se origina y mundializa a partir de América.

Nesta ocasião me proponho, sobretudo, a colocar algumas das questões centrais que me parecem ainda insuficientemente pesquisadas no debate a respeito do processo chamado "globalização" [...]

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