Una lectura decolonial del racismo en Guatemala

Abstract

The history of Latin America has been (re) built always from the European and colonial perspective, leaving out the diverse realities of the original peoples who inhabited "America" ​​long before the coming of the colonizers. In the specific case of Guatemala, cultural diversity has always been subordinated by the numerous mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization, especially racism as an expression of persistent coloniality. This is how we will try to analyze, from the postulates of decoloniality and especially from the conceptual composition of the coloniality of power, knowledge and being, the ethnic-cultural dynamic that exists in Guatemala and, as some recent cases show, the difficult task to move from multiculturalism to interculturality.