This article brings up the central features of the manly aspect revitalized by the pattern of capitalist / colonial power and outlines how the patriarchal modulation of the pattern of power occurs in three concrete examples: First: the consolidation of the patriarchy salary in Europe, between XIX and XX centuries. Second, the long process of hyper masculinization of black people in the US during the XX century, and, finally, the sudden process of indigenous hyper masculinization (and kaibilization) in Guatemala, between the 1970s and 1980s. From the joint vision of the three cases, markedly differentiated by the racial classification of the world population, of both, the general mode of action of the contemporary power pattern, and the historical specificities in which this occurs one gets an understanding of the masculinizing politics in the colonial / capitalist power pattern.

The capacity of Anibal Quijano to remain as an influential author in the Latin American debate for over four decades does not obey a chameleonic style. Rather than a number of fundamentally solid axes from which he perceived and explored social transformations and intellectual debates. The article seeks to reveal some of the concepts that inhabit what Quijano once called “the epistemic heart itself of the idea of coloniality of power” (2013): power, social totality, and heterogeneity, these are already present in his first works. Thus becoming an extremely fertile method for exploring reality.

Este artículo expone los rasgos centrales de lo masculino revitalizado por el patrón de poder capitalista/ colonial y esboza cómo la modulación patriarcal del patrón de poder ocurre en tres ejemplos concretos: el primero, el de consolidación del patriarcado del salario en Europa, entre los siglos XIX y XX. El segundo, el largo proceso de hipermasculinización de los pueblos negros en EEUU a lo largo del siglo XX y, finalmente, el súbito proceso de hipermasculinización (y kaibilización) indígena en Guatemala, entre las décadas de 1970 y 1980. De la visión conjunta de los tres casos, marcadamente diferenciados por la clasificación racial de la población mundial, se obtiene una comprensión tanto del modo general de actuación del patrón de poder contemporáneo, como de las especificidades históricas en las que ello ocurre.

The capacity of Anibal Quijano to remain as an influential author in the Latin American debate for over four decades does not obey a chameleonic style. Rather than a number of fundamentally solid axes from which he perceived and explored social transformations and intellectual debates. The article seeks to reveal some of the concepts that inhabit what Quijano once called “the epistemic heart itself of the idea of coloniality of power” (2013): power, social totality, and heterogeneity, these are already present in his first works. Thus becoming an extremely fertile method for exploring reality.

Versión final del artículo publicado en la Revista Discursos del Sur 2019;3,37-53