Cox: Coloniality 40 years before

Abstract

Cox makes a clear definition of terms to focus on the origin of race (he calls it) racial antagonism. He distinguishes ethnocentrism as an attitude in the community of feelings that separates us from others. As a solidarity of a group, which is not necessarily a racial phenomenon. Neither is racial intolerance, since this is just a resentment of one group against another that refuses to follow the established norms. Nor is he interested in what he calls: racism, which he defines as: a philosophy of racial antipathy. That involves the origin of an ideology. Hunter (1987, p.50). He is interested in the origin of the race concept, which is distinguished from the last three: neither ethnocentrism, nor racial intolerance, nor racism.