Eurocentrism positions European norms as the implied endpoint of world history

Evidence

Eurocentrism makes what is recognized as prevailing European values, norms, and cultural expression, historically understood, not just the point and frame of reference but also, as Quijano notes, the telos, if not endpoint, of world historical progress. It is thought to provide the dominant (and dominating) language and style of expression, elbowing to the margins other ways of knowing and being, conception and expression, where they might be recognized fuzzily if at all. In a sense, Eurocentrism covers its tracks by refusing any other point of reference as viable, as bearer of (universal) truth. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1140

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the definition of Eurocentrism beyond mere centrality to include a teleological claim: European values are not just the reference point but the destined goal of historical progress.
• XREF: Connects to Goldberg’s broader project on racial neoliberalism and to the distinction he draws between Euro-mimesis and Eurocentrism in the preceeding paragraph. — connects to: The Western idea that history moves toward an endpoint descends from Christian eschatology — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 159