The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options
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During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and controlled by Western men and institutions from the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822350785
ISBN13:9780822350781
Release Date:December 2011
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:458 Pages
Weight:1.42 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"
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