THE MALINCHISM OF CARLOS CASTANEDA

Carlos Castaneda was a dark-skinned man of Andean descent, but he showed repulsion towards his ethnicity as I will now demonstrate.

Castaneda claimed to be European

On several occasions he claimed to be European, such as in the interview that the philosopher Sam Keen conducted with him in 1972, or also in the interview that the novelist Theodore Rosak conducted with him in 1969, which you can listen to in this video and you will see that Castaneda repeatedly affirms that he is European:

Castaneda claimed to have Italian ancestry

In the interview that the Argentine academic Graciela Corvalán conducted with Castaneda in 1982, she wrote:

"Carlos Castaneda told us several anecdotes about his Italian grandfather, who was always so prone to falling in love."

But as far as I've discovered, Castaneda didn't have any Italian grandparents.

His wife was white

In 1960 Castaneda married an American woman named Margaret Runyan, who has white skin and light brown hair.

His son was blond

Margaret wanted a child, but Castaneda could no longer father children because he had had a vasectomy. So, to please Margaret, Castaneda looked for a man to impregnate her, but he didn't look for a mixed-race man or a Latin American; instead, he asked a tall, blond Slavic man. And Castaneda adopted this child.

Castaneda adored this child, and in the following photos you can see Castaneda with his blond, light-eyed son:

As an adult, Castaneda's son told journalist Geoffrey Gray:  "My dad told me that he wanted to have a tall, blond, blue-eyed warrior heir."

His next partner was also a white woman

Castaneda and Margaret separated, and shortly afterwards Castaneda began a relationship with another American woman named Mary Joan Barker who was also white.

 

Castaneda's disciple-lovers were white womans

Once he was famous, Castaneda gathered a group of women around him who were officially his personal disciples, but who were secretly also his lovers, and something that stands out is that all of them are white-skinned, none of them are dark-skinned .

Florinda Donner

Taisha Abelar

Carol Tiggs

Nury Alexander

Tycho Thal

Amy Wallace

Talia Bey

Kylie Lundahl

Nyei Murez

Renata Murez

Castaneda rejected a dark-skinned woman

I knew of a woman who was willing to do anything to become one of his close students, truly anything; however, since she wasn't very attractive and was dark-haired, that makes me suspect that was the real reason why Castaneda refused to accept her.  

"Caucasian"

His death certificate states that Castaneda claimed to be of Caucasian race.

CONCLUSION

All this leads me to conclude that Carlos Castaneda had a strong complex about being very short (he was 1.58 cm tall), dark-skinned, and Andean; and that is why he spent his whole life admiring people with white skin and of European origin.