SABERES E DIREITOS DESCOLONIZADOS: a contribuição da categoria raça e a reinvenção dos direitos a partir de uma epistemologia latino-americana

The paper aims to analyze, by a decolonizing perspective, how the Latin American epistemology may inaugurate new juridical perspectives in order to build up new rights. The article examines, from a Southern epistemology, how the questions of new rights in Latin America have been faced, without ignoring some studies of the critical Northern epistemology, assuming that the racial question is one of the fundamental elements in order to understand the process of domination unveiled by Modernity. The methodology is based on a critical review of literature and the work has been divided in two parts: a) the colonialism, the racism and the awareness of renegade individuals; b) decolonialized knowledges and rights: the re-invention of rights from a Latin American epistemology.