Description
The purpose of this article is to highlight the role of whiteness in the process of dividing the world into the Self and the Other, and its consequences for International Relations. To do so, the article is divided into four parts. The introduction presents discussions on colonialism and coloniality and how they have shaped Latin America and the construction of an ideal Other, based on the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans. The first session seeks to contribute to the discussion of the construction of the Other by bringing up a part of history that is sometimes ignored: the encounter between what we call here pre-Europe and the East. Following, the construction of the "Self" is addressed, based on the discussion proposed by Cida Bento (2022) on whiteness and its role in the hierarchization of the world. Finally, we will present the Final Considerations of this article, in which we propose rethinking both the processes that began with colonization and their consequences so that it is possible to retell history and, consequently, International Relations in a way that does not make use of the silences and suppressions of those who were conquered by the western white man.
