This week’s topic, “the colonial experience” is largely centred on the ways in which colonialism expressed itself with regards its impact on the societies and peoples which it touched. Colonialism, as a very complicated phenomena finds expression in many modes, and has had wide-reaching impacts that persist today. Nevertheless, colonialism tends to strike in a pattern of faultlines in social fabric, compartmentalizing populations and polarizing relations. Of those faultlines, two are especially highlighted in this week’s readings: race in Casta Paintings, and gender in the case of Lieutenant Nun. Race is a…read more
I find colonization as one of the most Interesting subjects. Once again, we can see that the Spanish intentions were never those of converting the natives into Christianism but to use them as slaves, this is represented in the “castas” system as the different pictures showed the different “new races”, and because in every one … Sigue leyendo Week 3 – Who are we →
