The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options

by Walter D. Mignolo

Book Overview

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: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"