ABSTRACT
This chapter dissects what Quijano (1992) has coined as the ‘coloniality matrix of power’ and its epistemological colors. It analyzes how such matrix fosters gendered, casted, and raced epistemic privilege and fascism as well as how our education and curriculum is deeply related with epistemological blindness and institutional racism, casteism, and genderism producing a full-blast curriculum epistemicide. The chapter examines the clashing dynamics of modernity—colonial world system—and highlights the importance of concepts, such as colonial difference and transmodernity. It also argues that such coloniality matrix of power, although having exhausted its capability and arguments to keep dominating hegemonically our societies, attempts to persist imposing a human and humanity—and consequently a sub-human and sub-humanity—to “maintain control of epistemic meaning”.
