Quijanos Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism and Social Classification

What is Latin American philosophy?

Influence of Marx historical material analysis

Colonialism and Globalization

Coloniality of Power
Racialization
Capitalism, colonialism, labor relations
Eurocentrism in Center and Periphery
Intersubjectivity
Modernity
America and a new view of history
Evolutionism and dualism
Epistemic Suppression
Mind body dualism and oppression

Discovery of America as a new space/time

Race as not biological Africa is too big to be a race. Spanish is a location, not a
race.
Racial division social identity used for division of labor slaves, serfs, and wage
workers
Race appears to be a natural division, but is invented to legitimate/justify
domination.

Id-entity?
Europe controls global trade. Moves from feudalism to capitalism and wage labor.
(White)Peoples work acquires value.
Still lower wages among inferior races
Europe is the center of capitalism

Intersubjectivity Occident and orient South America doesnt even have a title.
Indians erases particular history and culture of diverse peoples. Epistemic
suppression p. 189

Modernity and rationality as distinctively European.

2 Myths: Historical trajectory towards rational Europeans, and natural racial

hierarchy

Modernity as a relation to technology and knowledge, secularization then many

high cultures exhibit this.

Actually, Muslims and Jews carried Greco-Roman culture forward. Not Europe so
no reason for Eurocentrism.

Affect the whole globe Coloniality of power, capitalism, Eurocentrism

Modernity: Discovery of America is perception of historical change. Relation to time

future. Future may be for us to create/control. P.195

Democracy requires equality. Capitalism requires hierarchical domination.

Conflicting interests. Ambiguous and contradictory. P.196

Is capitalism on a linear economic trajectory? No.

P.200 many tribes become Indian or African.

Makes them people without history. Also imposes cognitive model in which they are
inferior.

Europe and America mutually invent each others identity. Intersubjective.

But Europe is convinced they self-produced their civilization.
P201.Three pieces of Eurocentrism: Dualism and evolutionism, race divisions,
distinction between immature past cultures and modern.

Descartes on Mind/Body dualism. Only reason is valuable. Indians and blacks dont
have reason. Only bodies, like nature, so resources to be exploited.

Mirror that distorts.

Nation-state

Nations require common identity. No Latin American states have this. No

democratization.

American experience of democratization. Southern Cone experience -

extermination.
Aborted attempts at nation states in Latin America.

Call for new movement in the face of re-colonizing capitalism.