Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America

Aníbal Quijano (1928–2018) was born in Yanama, Peru, and became involved in Marxist-socialist revolutionary politics at a young age. This book is the first collection in English of selected essays of this influential Latin American thinker.

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• 1 He was an active part of the conceptualization of dependence theory in the 1960–1970s and of the shaping of Latin American critical thought.
• 2 Trained as a sociologist, Quijano refused the identification of full-time academic.
• 3 His intellectual interest, energy, and contribution were always militant in scope: a perspective for analyzing and re-reading the world from Latin America, from the complex weave of race and capital that is the coloniality of power.

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