Publications [#335526] of Walter D. Mignolo

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1. Mignolo, WD, Racism and coloniality: The invention of “HUMAN(ITY)" and the three pillars of the colonial matrix of power (racism, sexism, and nature), in Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (January, 2017), pp. 461-474, Routledge, ISBN 9781315884424 [doi]
   (last updated on 2025/06/24)

   Abstract:
   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.