Mestizo Mind

<p><em>Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically a person</em><em>of mixed European and American Indian</em><em>ancestry.</em><br><br>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 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.<br><br>A masterful alchemy of history anthropology philosophy and visual analysis <em>The Mestizo</em><em>Mind</em> definitively conceptualizes the clash of civilizations in the style of Homi Bhabha Gayatri Spivak and Anne McClintock.</p>