Anibal Quijano 1928 – 2018

Anibal Quijano Obregon was a Peruvian sociologist and philosopher and one of the founders of decolonial thought. After early work in dependency theory, he developed in a series of essays in the 1990s the concept of the coloniality of power, which holds that the racial, economic, and epistemic hierarchies established by European colonialism in the sixteenth century continue to structure the modern world long after the formal end of colonial rule. His Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America, written for the Modernity-Rationality project, became a founding document of the Latin American decolonial school. He spent decades teaching in Lima and at Binghamton.