Racismo y Pensamiento Latinoamericano - La subalternización de la Diáspora africana en América

Abstract

This text addresses the genesis of what Alberdi called the philosophy of the American (Biagini, 2005). Therefore, it examines whether the transit, in epistemic terms, of colonial society to republican society meant a time of weaning of European thought or whether, on the contrary, it can be considered as the continuity of the patterns of power and Colonial domination in the Latin American academic sphere. To understand the characteristics of what has been called Latin American thought from the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century, it is of great importance to find the guiding thread of the ideologies that preceded it since the constitution of America as a setting for colonization. It is also worth checking if the categories of Eurocentrism and Social Darwinism are associated with the racist type of the early thinkers who made much of intellectual history in America. Of course, I am interested in analyzing how this thought constitutes a pilot to strengthen the subalternization of the Afro-Latin Diaspora within the framework of the developments of the Latin American academy. Finally, alternatives to classic Latin American thought are outlined in the analysis of what is known today as decolonial thinking within the framework of the Modernity/coloniality research project. In this scenario, as a critique of European modernity, it is possible to find ways to make the own thinking of Diaspora afrolatina visible.