Cultural Decolonization: Racism, Gender Discrimination, and Sexuality in Mirror, Mirror by Carrie Weems

Abstract

This text aims to bring to the forefront of academic debate the concept of decolonization from an artistic perspective, exploring how art, through its critical stance, seeks to counteract, resist, and serve as a tool that enables societies of the Global South to rethink and reflect on their local position in contrast to Europeanized frameworks. It invites a deeper examination of classism and racism within contemporary globalized societies, through the analysis of Carrie Mae Weems’s work Mirror, Mirror. This piece reveals the cultural colonial condition experienced by developing countries, particularly through the lens of discrimination. Drawing on the categories proposed by María Lugones (2015), the text engages with a narrative that highlights how race, gender, class, and sexuality have shaped new forms of coloniality in the present.