Manuel Serrano Blanco and the Political Change in Colombia. Journalism, Literature and Race (1897-1953)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the trajectory of a new generation of politicians and intellectuals that emerged in the first decades of the 20th century from the political and journalistic itinerary of Manuel Serrano Blanco, leader of the Conservative Party in the department of Santander. Through the text will be able to recognize even more to this generation, called Los Nuevos, young conservatives and liberals with a marked partisanship who became consolidated in public life in the 1920s and developed, in some cases, discourses and racial positions that marked the future of the country. It analyzes the journalistic and literary work of this author little worked, taking into account a local and national context of increasing polarization marked in part by aggressive and belligerent speeches related to violence and race.