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The concept was also expanded upon by Ramón Grosfoguel, Walter Mignolo, Sylvia Wynter, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Santiago Castro-Gómez, Catherine Walsh, and Roberto Hernández. Quijano's work on the subject "had wide repercussions among Latin American decolonial scholars in the North American academy." The modernity/coloniality group is an active network of intellectuals spanning generations and disciplines that are expanding on this work.

The important distinction in the concept of coloniality of power is the ways that this heterogeneous structural process shaped the modern world. While modernity is certainly a European phenomenon, it was forged through and is constitutive of what Enrique Dussel has called "the invention of the Americas," or the colonization of the Americas beginning in 1492. . Coloniality of power reveals the hidden side of modernity which is entangled with and constitutive of an international division of labor between Europeans and non-Europeans.