# Faces of exclusion: the “social,” the “digital” and “digital racism” in a decolonial critical essay

## TL;DR

This paper explores digital racism and exclusion through a decolonial lens, suggesting ways to resist colonial structures and revive local knowledge.

## Contribution

The paper introduces a decolonial critical framework to analyze digital racism and proposes resistance through reclaiming local practices and memory.

## Key findings

- Digital racism is a continuation of colonial hierarchies through new forms of social classification.
- Resisting colonial structures requires embracing plural and collective solutions rooted in local knowledge.
- Local practices and values can counter colonial remnants in contemporary digital spaces.

## Abstract

This article addressed digital racism and exclusion from the decolonial perspective, explicitly concerning the possibilities of resistance to colonial structures. This argument was based on the discussion of intersectionality as a reference to the multiple combinations of exclusionary experiences expressed here through new forms of hierarchizing difference, understood from the perspective of social classification, as taught by Aníbal Quijano. We theoretically rehearsed the topic to broaden dialogs, conducting a reflective exercise that invites debate. Based on the notions of subjectivation processes emerging from this elaboration, we performed a propositional reflection, pointing to plural and collective solutions that rescue the memory and knowledge denied by coloniality. Furthermore, we suggest the rediscovery of local practices and values, as opposed to the adherence to standards established by remnants of colonization that are transmitted and reverberated in contemporary daily life.