https://doi.org/10.25058/issn.2011-2742

essentialism

The concept of “racism” in Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon: theorizing from the being or the nonbeing zone?

Ramón Grosfoguel grosfogu@berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley, USA Abstract: This paper deals with the historic emergence of racism in the world-system and the definition of racism. It discusses by counterpointing Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon’s views on racism. This paper provides a discussion on the decolonial epistemic implications of Fanon’s theory on racism. Keywords: racism, […]

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Physionomy of Decolonial Metaphysics: The Damné, Identity Without a Narrative

Javier Franzé javier.franze@cps.ucm.es Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España Abstract: This paper aims to show the essentialism of Walter Mignolo’s reflection in The Idea of Latin America. One such essentialism does not consist of considering subaltern communities as pure or uncontaminated, nor all of its members (the damné) as endowed with some definite and ahistorical traits, […]

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