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Race as a Historical Category in the 15th Century? Gender Coloniality and the Unfaithful Canarian Women

Abstract

The theoretical framework of the studies stemming from the decolonial epistemological shift is grounded in the concept of coloniality. The feminist critique, specifically with the proposal of María Lugones, revised this theory by introducing the concept of gender coloniality, emphasizing the crucial importance of this oppression within the colonial system. This theory asserts the existence of, starting from 1495, a modern colonial world system of gender, built upon the centrality of the category of race in explaining the epistemological, economic, and cultural domination of the Western world over colonized territories. From a post-structuralist standpoint, we propose a historical analysis
of the chronicles of the conquest of the Canary Islands, where we question the use of the category of race in the 15th century as the basis for differentiation, replacing it with others based on European colonial religious centrism, equally intersected by gender differences.

Keywords

coloniality, gender, race, historical categories, 15th century

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Author Biography

Laura Sabina González Carracedo

Contratada predoctoral (FPI) en el Departamento de Geografía e Historia de la Universidad de La Laguna. Graduada en Historia por la Universidad de La Laguna y con el Máster Interuniversitario en Historia y Ciencias de la Antigüedad por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Últimas publicaciones: «Las gentes canarias en la crónica portuguesa del siglo XV de Gomes Eanes de Zurara», Nexo, nº 19 (2023): 35-43, doi: https://doi.org/10.56029/NX1935; «Las mujeres canarias bajo el discurso colonial (s. XV-XVI)», en Los caminos de la Historia Moderna. Presente y porvenir de la investigación, coords. Ofelia Rey Castelao y Francisco Cebreiros Ares (Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 2023), 1130-1138; «Fortificaciones, puertos y turistas. La colonialidad en las costas isleñas en las crónicas de la conquista de Canarias», Tabula Rasa, nº 44 (2022): 109-133, doi: https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n44.05. lgonzalc@ull.edu.es https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9531-2140.


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