{"id":31908,"date":"2013-06-25T19:34:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T19:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31908"},"modified":"2015-02-24T01:26:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T01:26:21","slug":"the-mestizo-mind-the-intellectual-dynamics-of-colonization-and-globalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31908","title":{"rendered":"The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415928793\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\" target=\"_blank\">Routledge<\/a><br \/>\n2002-09-06<br \/>\n272 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-415-92879-3<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 978-0-415-92878-6<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cerma.ehess.fr\/document.php?id=155\" target=\"_blank\">Serge Gruzinski<\/a><\/strong>, Research Director<br \/>\n<em>National Scientific Research Center (CNRS, Paris)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415928793\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.tandf.co.uk\/common\/jackets\/amazon\/978041592\/9780415928793.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers a brilliant, original critique of colonization and globalization in <em>The Mestizo Mind<\/em>. Looking at the fifteenth-century colonization of Latin America, Gruzinski documents the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/m%C3%A9lange\" target=\"_blank\">m\u00e9lange<\/a> that resulted: colonized mating with colonizers; Indians joining the Catholic Church and colonial government; and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas\" target=\"_blank\">Amerindian<\/a> visualizations of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jesus\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perseus\" target=\"_blank\">Perseus<\/a>. These physical and cultural encounters created a new culture, a new individual, and a phenomenon we now call globalization. Revealing globalization&#8217;s early origins, Gruzinski then fast forwards to the contemporary m\u00e9lange seen in the films of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Greenaway\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Greenaway<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wong_Kar-wai\" target=\"_blank\">Wong Kar-Wai<\/a> to argue that over 500 years of intermingling has produced the mestizo mind, a state of mixed thinking that we all possess.<\/p>\n<p>A masterful alchemy of history, anthropology, philosophy and visual analysis, <em>The Mestizo Mind<\/em> definitively conceptualizes the clash of civilizations in the style of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homi_K._Bhabha\" target=\"_blank\">Homi Bhabha<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gayatri_Spivak\" target=\"_blank\">Gayatri Spivak<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.wisc.edu\/amcclintock\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anne McClintock<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization Routledge 2002-09-06 272 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-92879-3 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-92878-6 Serge Gruzinski, Research Director National Scientific Research Center (CNRS, Paris) 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,21,459,8,17,820],"tags":[420,15033],"class_list":["post-31908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-religion","tag-routledge","tag-serge-gruzinski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}