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The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race

Racism and coloniality: The invention of “HUMAN(ITY)" and the three pillars of the colonial matrix of power (racism, sexism, and nature)

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Mignolo, WD
January 1, 2017

The issue at stake is social classification, which includes social class. Racism is not exactly what catches the eye. On the surface, racism is a question of content and identification based on biological markers (blood, skin color, hair, and nose shape, as well as language, religion, nationalities). Beneath the surface are the principles of classification and ranking that sustain and characterize racism. Racism is one fundamental aspect of the logic of coloniality: someone who has the privilege to classify and someone who has to endure classification.

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Mignolo, W. D. (2017). Racism and coloniality: The invention of “HUMAN(ITY)" and the three pillars of the colonial matrix of power (racism, sexism, and nature). In The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (pp. 461–474). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315884424
Mignolo, W. D. “Racism and coloniality: The invention of “HUMAN(ITY)" and the three pillars of the colonial matrix of power (racism, sexism, and nature).” In The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race, 461–74, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315884424.
Mignolo, W. D. “Racism and coloniality: The invention of “HUMAN(ITY)" and the three pillars of the colonial matrix of power (racism, sexism, and nature).” The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race, 2017, pp. 461–74. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9781315884424.
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DOI

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9781315884424

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January 1, 2017

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461 / 474