“Coloniality, therefore, names the various colonial-like power relations existing today in those zones that experienced direct…
“Coloniality, therefore, names the various colonial-like power relations existing today in those zones that experienced direct colonialism. The concept of coloniality was introduced by the Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano and was further elaborated by the Argentinean decolonial semiotician Walter D. Mignolo and others such as Nelson Maldonado-Torres. In “Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality,” Quijano identified four key levers of coloniality: control of the economy, control of authority, control of gender and sexuality, and control of knowledge and subjectivity (173). Mignolo emphasized “colonial difference” as a central leitmotif of coloniality. Coloniality is a name for the “darker side” of modernity that needs to be unmasked because it exists as “an embedded logic that enforces control, domination, and exploitation disguised in the language of salvation, progress, modernization, and being good for everyone” (The Idea of Latin America 6).”— Discourses of Decolonization/Decoloniality, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (see full citation of references in the linked article)