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Martinique is currently a French colonial territory and is one of the nine territories that make up the European Union’s Outermost regions.
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Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch’ixinakax Utxiwa: Una reflexión sobre prácticas y discursos descolonizadores (Tinta Limón, 2010).
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Since 2017, when this article was first published, the issue of “cultural decolonization” in Spain has totally changed. It has been a central topic in certain academic debates and has even been a policy of the Ministry of Culture, which has sought to decolonize public museums.
Translated from the Spanish by Ezra E. Fitz.
This is a revised version of an essay published in the book Barbarismos queer y otras esdrújulas, edited by R. Lucas Platero, María Rosón, and Esther O. Mayoko (Bellaterra, 2017), and republished in Francisco Godoy Vega, Usos y costumbres de los blancos: la pena perpetua del colonialismo cultural (Customs and traditions of white people: the perpetual punishment of cultural colonialism) (La Parcería Edita and FEA Editorial, 2025).