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I struggled with this week’s topics, finding myself caught between utter shock and absolute disgust for the small mindedness and outright racist beliefs of the 19th century liberal elites in Europe and the Americas. It’s not that any of the information was new to me or even surprising, but more a sad reminder of the […] read full post >>

I love the question about race being a social construct. It always makes me think of Rachel Dolezal, who claimed to be black (but was really a white woman doing some form of complicated blackface) and then the hordes of (mostly) white people rushing in... read full post >>

I love the question about race being a social construct. It always makes me think of Rachel Dolezal, who claimed to be black (but was really a white woman doing some form of complicated blackface) and then the hordes of (mostly) white people rushing in... read full post >>

I love the question about race being a social construct. It always makes me think of Rachel Dolezal, who claimed to be black (but was really a white woman doing some form of complicated blackface) and then the hordes of (mostly) white people rushing in... read full post >>

I love the question about race being a social construct. It always makes me think of Rachel Dolezal, who claimed to be black (but was really a white woman doing some form of complicated blackface) and then the hordes of (mostly) white people rushing in... read full post >>

I love the question about race being a social construct. It always makes me think of Rachel Dolezal, who claimed to be black (but was really a white woman doing some form of complicated blackface) and then the hordes of (mostly) white people rushing in... read full post >>

One important thing to considering when thinking about the legacy of slavery today is the fact that it was primarily an economic system; a system of free labor. Shifting too far away from this would have been severely damaging to the status quo, as such numerous ways of continuing to exact free or cheap labor […] read full post >>

This week I would like to directly comment on the questions that Jon asks in his lecture video. How does a history of slavery affect the Americas today? Even though in a perfect world, there would be no prejudice, hate or discrimination against different races, this is sadly not the case in the current world […] read full post >>

As immigrants arrived in Latin American nations, there was a rise of Afro-Latin Americans which resulted in racialized social conventions. Many of these black immigrants were used as slaves, for example in Brazil. The slaves were seen as bottom of the social hierarchy, and had significantly lower life expectancy than Brazilian whites. I was never … Continue reading Week 6- Citizenship and Rights in the New Republic read full post >>

This week, we are looking into who was considered a citizen and enjoyed the privileges of that status in post-independence Latin America. In the beginning of the chapter, we’re asked to look back on the Casta paintings of Week 3 and to think about how the social and racial hierarchy portrayed in those paintings are […] read full post >>