Articles about "colonization"

Entrevistas

The horizons of universality: Serge Gruzinski's research and perspective.

Interview with

    • Arturo Reynoso
    • Serge Gruzinski

    What benefits, in the end, has globalization offered to one part of the world as well as another? What are the risks of the interaction of diverse societies? How can we understand over time the different "colonizations" in history, not only that of the New World, but also those that had already occurred in other parts of the planet? Complete interview with one of the most outstanding experts on the process of globalization and the history of Mexico.

    Reseñas críticas

    Black Skin, White Masks

    Isaac Julien1995 Normal Films, England and France.

    Frantz Fanon, a man without masks

    • Blanca Cardenas

    The docudrama Black Skin, White Masks, directed by Isaac Julien in 1995, presents the racist panorama that prevailed in the first half of the 20th century, based on a journey through emblematic moments in the life of Frantz Fanon, a prominent psychiatrist and intellectual whose reflections are at the foundation of contemporary critical theories and the rise of post-colonialist views.

    Reseñas críticas

    Historia del Reino de la Nueva Galicia

    Thomas Calvo and Aristarco Regalado Pinedo (coords.), 2016 University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 877 pp.

    A look at the past of Nueva Galicia

    • Andres Fabregas Puig

    The history of the Kingdom of New Galicia is part of the process of expansion of Western Europe, modernization and capitalism, in the form of colonialism. Likewise, it is part of the decolonization processes in general and of the formation of the Mexican nation and the Mexican national State in particular. The texts that make up the work document the above, describe the results of the colonial enterprise that lasted three centuries, the expropriation of the lands from their original owners, the disruption of the territories and the forging of new regional realities, evangelization and, therefore, Of course, the anti-colonial resistance of which the Mixtón war is already an icon.