Return to racism as a problem in Latin America and think of it as a device of power

Abstract

In this work, the author reflects on the potentialities that racism continues to have in the configuration and articulation of power relations in Latin America. In this sense, the author considers that in the colors and phenotypes the racist device has printed on the skins, colors and phenotypes a complex logic, but not undecipherable through which one can read supposed qualities of perfection and civilizational superiorities -the white- and by another controversial defeats, expirations and inferiorities -the Indian, black, yellow, etcetera.-

 In such a way that this device has delegated in the color and the skin of the bearer a powerful capacity of historical reading of entire peoples, of their advances and expirations, of their ontological and epistemic conformations, all, of course, within the framework of the Eurocentric/white colonizing gaze, gaze implanted by the logics of domination in the societies of Our America.