Articles about "racism"

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.

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Nation and racism. October 12 in the construction of Latin American societies

  • Alexander Grimson
  • Alicia Castellanos
  • Irma A. Velasquez Nimatuj

  • moderator Santiago Bastos

Keywords: October 12, Latin America, nation, racism.

WOn October 12, 1492, the ships chartered by the Crown of Castile under the command of Admiral Christopher Columbus touched down in what would later be known as America. This date is so charged with symbolism that it is part of the civic calendars of almost all the countries of the subcontinent, referring to the relationship between the "mother country" and the republics, their "daughters" despite the sacred independence. We take this date to ask three social scientists how the always conflictive relationship of the Latin American republics with their colonial origins, with the original populations and with the Creole legacy in their formation as nations occurs in their respective countries.