Abstract
This article argues that the debate on internal colonialism in Latin America is the result of a collective, transnational and interdisciplinary dynamic generated through exchanges that occurred at the confluence between the institutionalization of the region's social sciences and the initial criticisms of the modernization horizon. The seminal dialogues that were established between Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira, Pablo González Casanova and Rodolfo Stavenhagen between the late 1950s and the first half of 1960 around the Latin American Center for Social Sciences Research (CLAPCS) are reconstructed from several original primary sources. Thus, a genealogy and itinerary of the concept of internal colonialism is proposed, in which context, history and theory interact in a plot of emergence, construction and re-elaboration of a key notion for Latin American thought, in its contacts with other related concepts such as that of “inter-ethnic friction”.
Keywords:
Internal colonialism; Inter-ethnic friction; CLAPCS; Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira; Pablo González Casanova; Rodolfo Stavehangen