Mignolo 111: “En el continente americano, la raza se convirtió en un motivo endémico de la conciencia del Nuevo Mundo, y por eso las razas se ‘sienten’ en América como se ‘sienten’ las clases en Europa.”
He is discussing Lewis Gordon, Existentia Africana, another book I should read.
Also: Omi and Winant. Formation theory is about vision. Learning to be a citizen of this society is learning to see race, in other words, to attach social and cultural meanings to otherwise meaningless biological features.
Finally, cut from paper: that the focus local and regional differences in systems of racial classification and the construction of racial meaning is an avoidance strategy: of discussions of racism, and of the globality of racial thinking.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 