Raza y pedagogía. El inspector Heriberto Ramón Álvarez y la enseñanza colonial franquista en Guinea (1938-1949)

Authors

Gonzalo Álvarez Chillida Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Keywords:

Colonial Africa, Spanish Guinea, Francoism, Hispanidad, Colonial Teaching

Abstract

Race and pedagogy. Inspector Heriberto Ramón Alvarez and the Francoist colonial teaching in Guinea (1938-1949)

The article analyzes the educational reform and the formation of native elites developed in the Spanish colony of Guinea by the teacher Heriberto Ramón Alvarez between 1939 and 1949. It also analyzes his ideas on the black ‘race’ and its culture, the need for radical assimilation to the European Catholic and the Francoist Spanish civilization, his defense of pedagogy against biological determinism, which was very popular among colonial sectors. Finally, the essay sketches the evolution of Alvarez’s thinking during post-WW2 decolonization.

Received: 07-12-2016

Admitted: 28-03-2017

Author Biography

Gonzalo Álvarez Chillida, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Gonzalo Álvarez Chillida, ha conseguito il dottorato in Historia contemporánea presso l’Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ed è professore di Historia del pensamiento y de los Movimientos Sociales y Políticos presso l’Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Tra i suoi interessi, la destra autoritaria, l’antisemitismo contemporaneo e il movimento libertario. Attualmente sta lavorando sul colonialismo spagnolo in Guinea. Tra le sue pubblicazioni si ricorda El antisemitismo en España. La imagen del judío 1812-2002 (Madrid, Marcial Pons, 2002).