Lugar de negro: colonialidade de poder e dominação racial nos Estados Unidos

Abstract

The pattern of power installed since America’s colonization is based on eurocentrism, modern/colonial capitalism and power coloniality. This pattern has determined, over the years, that social positions should be defined according to a racial and sexual classification of the world’s population. This standard spread itself on economies all over the world and perpetuated the idea that white and European people were naturally superior than other races. This paper aims to study how these factors influenced on the installation of racial domination mechanisms in the United States, which have been systematically renewed since slavery period, to racially control and rate the population. First, slavery (1619 – 1865), followed by Jim Crow system (1865 – 1965), the ghetto (1915 – 1968) and at last, prisons and mass incarceration (1968 - ).