exposure of racism in colombia: the case of josé félix angulo, a traffic officer representing the afro-descendant community

Abstract

Approaches to contemporary theories aim to reveal how philosophy and social sciences were established on the basis of a discourse of universality and development, hiding the standpoint from which much of knowledge was built. That discourse of universality and development has basically consisted of a colonial continuity and settler colonialism, as will be seen in the development of this article. Considering the case of José Félix Angulo, a traffic officer attacked by a passerby in the city of Cali, some of the main contemporary theories are brought in to question racist, classist, and patriarchal structures as forms of oppression and subordination of historically marginalized groups in today’s societies.  Although clearly, the event takes place in the Colombian context, what is really intended to show is how the pedestrian's behavior would be part of a much broader and generalized order, ranging from the most everyday racist practices to the most sophisticated and invisible ones in a large-scale sociocultural context.