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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 >>

This week’s lecture was a reminder of the horrors that existed during slavery as well as those that still exist today even over a hundred years after its abolishment. Millions of slaves were captured and transported to the Americas and … Continue reading → read full post >>

This week’s lecture was a reminder of the horrors that existed during slavery as well as those that still exist today even over a hundred years after its abolishment. Millions of slaves were captured and transported to the Americas and … Continue reading → read full post >>

This week’s material did not really surprise me at all. After learning about the social disorder and disagreement that followed independence in Latin American nations last week, it seemed to follow suit that there would be immense class, gender and racial struggles as well. During this era, many nations sought to define civil rights as […] read full post >>

This week’s material did not really surprise me at all. After learning about the social disorder and disagreement that followed independence in Latin American nations last week, it seemed to follow suit that there would be immense class, gender and racial struggles as well. During this era, many nations sought to define civil rights as […] read full post >>

It was difficult to watch this week’s video and read the documents for this week. Both the video and the documents brought about feelings of anger and sadness. It is astonishing to see the dark side of human beings. What particularly struck me was how recent slavery is. I definitely always think of slavery as […] read full post >>

It was difficult to watch this week’s video and read the documents for this week. Both the video and the documents brought about feelings of anger and sadness. It is astonishing to see the dark side of human beings. What particularly struck me was how recent slavery is. I definitely always think of slavery as […] read full post >>

Human Rights have been hailed as humanity’s last-standing hope (Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia, 2010). They are ambitious in potential and broad in scope. Yet, as has been iterated by Prof. Beaseley-Murray in this week’s lecture, the remain “far from ‘self-evident.’” This is because rights are a discourse, not an absolute (expressed by Ronald Dwarkin: “rights as trumps”). Instead, rights must be understood as needing weighing, not hierarchizing (Pildes, The Structural Conception of Rights and Judicial Balancing, 2002). As such rights discourse holds no inherent morality, instead morality must be...read more read full post >>

This week’s topic was interesting. It was also surprising, What surprised me? Well… the fact that slavery didn’t really ended with the independece in Latin America. I believe that  one of the reasons for which Mexico seeked its independance was to avoid slavery (thing that I also believe was accomplished), however, I never really thought … Sigue leyendo Week 6 – Madness → read full post >>

Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics Early years of Latin American history was brutal, with campaigns such as Argentina’s ‘Conquest of the Desert’ that decreased the Mapuches population significantly. Corruption and violence prevented liberal ideas to flourish in Latin America, … Continue reading → read full post >>