Le créolisme dans les espaces hispano-américains: de la controverse coloniale aux mystifications de l'histoire.

This essay examines the evolution of the concept of creolization in Spanish America from the 16th to the 20th century. While modern scholars have often celebrated creolization in the New World as “creative adaptations”, in early modern times the fact that transplanted Europeans changed in the Americas was typically seen as evidence of cultural degeneration. The emergence of a creole identity during the colonial period is thus questioned to show how this concept is rather linked to the rise of national and racial categories in the 19th century.