00942pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002000040245005900060260000900119300001300128362000800141520061600149650001500765773002800780180718b2000   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aQuijano, Anibal  aColoniality of power and Eurocentrism in Latin America  c2000  ap.215-32  aJun  aThe 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. - Reproduced  aCapitalism  aInternational Sociology