Indígenas, conquista y esclavitud en América Latina : Visión histórica representada en libros escolares suecos y colombianos

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the indigenous people and the culture, the conquest and slavery in Latin America are represented in Swedish high school schoolbooks in comparison with their equals in Colombia. The aim is to discover whether there are any differences or similarities between the reproductions in both countries. The theoretical part discusses the difficulties involved to determine both a Latin-American identity as well as a Colombian one. This is due to the fact that identity in Latin America is a product of colonization, which is to say that it came into being through the people who conquered the region because, prior to their arrival, Latin America didn’t exist as we know it. Multiculturalism within the region complicates this construction since different ethnical groups and nations construct their memory and ‘wear’ these concepts from which they get their proper sense of the past in function with the present and how it aspires to identify itself with the future. This means that not just one Latin America exists, but many. Part of the problem is that Latin Americans want to be the ‘other’, meaning the white, the occidental, the European or the North American. The study con...