Ethnic Studies in the United States as Decolonial Studies within the Westernized Global University System

Authors

  • Ramón Grosfoguel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35197/rx.09.01.2013.01.rg

Keywords:

university, eurocentrism, decolonial thought, multiculturalism, identity politics

Abstract

This article is an analysis of the Westernized university and its Eurocentric fundamentalism in relation to the subaltern struggles of racialized groups in the United States and its impact on the formation of ethnic studies in the university’s epistemic structure. The article goes on to discuss questions of epistemic racism/sexism and the dilemmas that ethnic studies programs confront today in particular forms of disciplinary colonization, liberal multiculturalism and identity politics.

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Published

2013-04-30

How to Cite

Grosfoguel, R. (2013). Ethnic Studies in the United States as Decolonial Studies within the Westernized Global University System. Revista Ra Ximhai , 9(1 Especial), 17–34. https://doi.org/10.35197/rx.09.01.2013.01.rg

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Artículos científicos