The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization

Mestizo: A Person Of Mixed Blood; Specifically, A Person Of Mixed European And American Indian Ancestry. Serge Gruzinski, The Renowned Historian Of Latin America, Offers A Brilliant, Original Critique Of Colonization And Globalization In The Mestizo Mind. Looking At The Fifteenth-century Colonization Of Latin America, Gruzinski Documents The Mélange That Resulted: Colonized Mating With Colonizers; Indians Joining The Catholic Church And Colonial Government; And Amerindian Visualizations Of Jesus And Perseus. These Physical And Cultural Encounters Created A New Culture, A New Individual, And A Phenomenon We Now Call Globalization. Revealing Globalization's Early Origins, Gruzinski Then Fast Forwards To The Contemporary Mélange Seen In The Films Of Peter Greenaway And Wong Kar-wai To Argue That Over 500 Years Of Intermingling Has Produced The Mestizo Mind, A State Of Mixed Thinking That We All Possess. A Masterful Alchemy Of History, Anthropology, Philosophy And Visual Analysis, The Mestizo Mind Definitively Conceptualizes The Clash Of Civilizations In The Style Of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak And Anne Mcclintock.