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Week 3- Casta Paintings and the Colonial Experience
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This week we have looked at various casta paintings and how they reflect the ‘colonial experience’. At a first glance, through the lecture video and just by viewing the casta painting I have attached, it is easy to see that the colonial experience was NOT easy to navigate and had many more levels of social […] read full post >>
Week 3
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1492 was the fall of Granada brought to an 800 year of Muslim war. The Alhambra showed how Jews were all evicted, and how this can be described as ethnic cleansing. The new world claimed that the people were natural slaves whereas the Las casas saw them as potential Christian converts.
This was by far the most interesting video I have seen to date from taking this class.
It was shocking to see how the population of indigenous populations of the Americas had been halved in 1550. This then caused importing of slaves from Africa- it was interesting to see this as in high school in Kenya, we had been taught the history of slavery from the African perspective, reading textbooks that show how Africans had been exploited and to what degree. The lectures and videos showed me an entirely different lens to what had been going on the complete other end of the world in regard to African slaves and how they had been used on sugar plantations as well as why they had been imported and this had been due to a huge drop in the number of slaves that were already living in America at the time.
I previously had no knowledge that countries like Brazil had some of the highest numbers of slaves, this was a country that I would have previously never associated with the notion of slavery. It was because of this that the “Casta paintings” evolved. This was a hierarchy drawn out into dived boxes or grinds. Each grind representing or assigning racial combinations to names and a series of attributes such as clothing, occupation, land and housing. Casta painting were always almost always multiple and are a series of 16 scenes of racial mixture represented in a family group. It showed groups of:
Mestizo: white and indigenous
Mulato: White and black
Chino: indigenous and black
Brazil at the time had significant black populations of: 35% Ameridian and 28% Mestizo. Again, this had been new to me, I had no idea Brazil had African’s in their country at the time.
It makes me question however, who classified all these images and where did the names for the racial ethnicities like “Mestizo” come from?
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1492 was the fall of Granada brought to an 800 year of Muslim war. The Alhambra showed how Jews were all evicted, and how this can be described as ethnic cleansing. The new world claimed that the people were natural slaves whereas the Las casas saw them as potential Christian converts.
This was by far the most interesting video I have seen to date from taking this class.
It was shocking to see how the population of indigenous populations of the Americas had been halved in 1550. This then caused importing of slaves from Africa- it was interesting to see this as in high school in Kenya, we had been taught the history of slavery from the African perspective, reading textbooks that show how Africans had been exploited and to what degree. The lectures and videos showed me an entirely different lens to what had been going on the complete other end of the world in regard to African slaves and how they had been used on sugar plantations as well as why they had been imported and this had been due to a huge drop in the number of slaves that were already living in America at the time.
I previously had no knowledge that countries like Brazil had some of the highest numbers of slaves, this was a country that I would have previously never associated with the notion of slavery. It was because of this that the “Casta paintings” evolved. This was a hierarchy drawn out into dived boxes or grinds. Each grind representing or assigning racial combinations to names and a series of attributes such as clothing, occupation, land and housing. Casta painting were always almost always multiple and are a series of 16 scenes of racial mixture represented in a family group. It showed groups of:
Mestizo: white and indigenous
Mulato: White and black
Chino: indigenous and black
Brazil at the time had significant black populations of: 35% Ameridian and 28% Mestizo. Again, this had been new to me, I had no idea Brazil had African’s in their country at the time.
It makes me question however, who classified all these images and where did the names for the racial ethnicities like “Mestizo” come from?
read full post >>Week 3
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1492 was the fall of Granada brought to an 800 year of Muslim war. The Alhambra showed how Jews were all evicted, and how this can be described as ethnic cleansing. The new world claimed that the people were natural slaves whereas the Las casas saw them as potential Christian converts.
This was by far the most interesting video I have seen to date from taking this class.
It was shocking to see how the population of indigenous populations of the Americas had been halved in 1550. This then caused importing of slaves from Africa- it was interesting to see this as in high school in Kenya, we had been taught the history of slavery from the African perspective, reading textbooks that show how Africans had been exploited and to what degree. The lectures and videos showed me an entirely different lens to what had been going on the complete other end of the world in regard to African slaves and how they had been used on sugar plantations as well as why they had been imported and this had been due to a huge drop in the number of slaves that were already living in America at the time.
I previously had no knowledge that countries like Brazil had some of the highest numbers of slaves, this was a country that I would have previously never associated with the notion of slavery. It was because of this that the “Casta paintings” evolved. This was a hierarchy drawn out into dived boxes or grinds. Each grind representing or assigning racial combinations to names and a series of attributes such as clothing, occupation, land and housing. Casta painting were always almost always multiple and are a series of 16 scenes of racial mixture represented in a family group. It showed groups of:
Mestizo: white and indigenous
Mulato: White and black
Chino: indigenous and black
Brazil at the time had significant black populations of: 35% Ameridian and 28% Mestizo. Again, this had been new to me, I had no idea Brazil had African’s in their country at the time.
It makes me question however, who classified all these images and where did the names for the racial ethnicities like “Mestizo” come from?
read full post >>Week 3
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1492 was the fall of Granada brought to an 800 year of Muslim war. The Alhambra showed how Jews were all evicted, and how this can be described as ethnic cleansing. The new world claimed that the people were natural slaves whereas the Las casas saw them as potential Christian converts.
This was by far the most interesting video I have seen to date from taking this class.
It was shocking to see how the population of indigenous populations of the Americas had been halved in 1550. This then caused importing of slaves from Africa- it was interesting to see this as in high school in Kenya, we had been taught the history of slavery from the African perspective, reading textbooks that show how Africans had been exploited and to what degree. The lectures and videos showed me an entirely different lens to what had been going on the complete other end of the world in regard to African slaves and how they had been used on sugar plantations as well as why they had been imported and this had been due to a huge drop in the number of slaves that were already living in America at the time.
I previously had no knowledge that countries like Brazil had some of the highest numbers of slaves, this was a country that I would have previously never associated with the notion of slavery. It was because of this that the “Casta paintings” evolved. This was a hierarchy drawn out into dived boxes or grinds. Each grind representing or assigning racial combinations to names and a series of attributes such as clothing, occupation, land and housing. Casta painting were always almost always multiple and are a series of 16 scenes of racial mixture represented in a family group. It showed groups of:
Mestizo: white and indigenous
Mulato: White and black
Chino: indigenous and black
Brazil at the time had significant black populations of: 35% Ameridian and 28% Mestizo. Again, this had been new to me, I had no idea Brazil had African’s in their country at the time.
It makes me question however, who classified all these images and where did the names for the racial ethnicities like “Mestizo” come from?
read full post >>Week 3 – The Colonial Experience
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This week’s video and readings discussed the issues pertaining to ethnic representation and self-identification during the European colonization of what is now Latin America. The video lecture touches on some interesting aspects that I hadn’t considered before, especially in the way it frames the identity crisis Spanish people were going through, and the ethnic homogeneity […] read full post >>
Week 2: Meeting of Two Worlds:
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The video talks about how the idea of Latin America and why and how it became popular. The mythical point of contact: 1492 October 12th was the instant Latin America begun. Whilst watching this video, I discovered that this was the year there was a great divide between pre-colonial, pre-Hispanic and pre Latin America. And despite having several Vikings sail around the world, their settlement left little to no impact whereas Christopher Columbus had a huge impact having several places/things named after him. At the end of the video and in class as well, we are asked to think about whether Columbus was a hero or not.
Whilst in high-school, all the history I had been taught about Columbus was that of him being a hero. A hero for being enough of a risk taker to sail out into ocean. In text books he was seen as a famous Italian explorer who discovered America, but after reading his journal and watching the videos posted online- I personally think that it is evident that he may have been a brave man- but he was a greedy man. How do you call a rapist a hero?
The Meeting of the two worlds video by Angela pope et all- (0.49) the image shows Christopher Columbus with a huge cross and natives/indigenous people all around him subtly bowing down to him. This picture struck me due to the stark type of it because it shows the nature of who he really was- making people do things for him, and having complete dominance over the native people whilst they obey him out of fear or no choice.
He damaged the lives of a lot of Native Americans by partaking the slave trade. His crew and him killed a huge population, and all his ideas were erroneous because he was not the first to have discovered the land, Indians had been there way prior.
"Columbus makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent"
After watching the videos, it boggles my mind why he’s had places and things named after him, especially for having public holidays like Columbus Day when in actuality it should be called Indigenous People’s day.
Whilst some are able to recognize Columbus for the courage, determination and will he embodied, I still do not see how he can be considered a hero- he is much more a fake idol.
Week 2: Meeting of Two Worlds:
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The video talks about how the idea of Latin America and why and how it became popular. The mythical point of contact: 1492 October 12th was the instant Latin America begun. Whilst watching this video, I discovered that this was the year there was a great divide between pre-colonial, pre-Hispanic and pre Latin America. And despite having several Vikings sail around the world, their settlement left little to no impact whereas Christopher Columbus had a huge impact having several places/things named after him. At the end of the video and in class as well, we are asked to think about whether Columbus was a hero or not.
Whilst in high-school, all the history I had been taught about Columbus was that of him being a hero. A hero for being enough of a risk taker to sail out into ocean. In text books he was seen as a famous Italian explorer who discovered America, but after reading his journal and watching the videos posted online- I personally think that it is evident that he may have been a brave man- but he was a greedy man. How do you call a rapist a hero?
The Meeting of the two worlds video by Angela pope et all- (0.49) the image shows Christopher Columbus with a huge cross and natives/indigenous people all around him subtly bowing down to him. This picture struck me due to the stark type of it because it shows the nature of who he really was- making people do things for him, and having complete dominance over the native people whilst they obey him out of fear or no choice.
He damaged the lives of a lot of Native Americans by partaking the slave trade. His crew and him killed a huge population, and all his ideas were erroneous because he was not the first to have discovered the land, Indians had been there way prior.
"Columbus makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent"
After watching the videos, it boggles my mind why he’s had places and things named after him, especially for having public holidays like Columbus Day when in actuality it should be called Indigenous People’s day.
Whilst some are able to recognize Columbus for the courage, determination and will he embodied, I still do not see how he can be considered a hero- he is much more a fake idol.
Week 2: Meeting of Two Worlds:
Posted by: feedwordpress
The video talks about how the idea of Latin America and why and how it became popular. The mythical point of contact: 1492 October 12th was the instant Latin America begun. Whilst watching this video, I discovered that this was the year there was a great divide between pre-colonial, pre-Hispanic and pre Latin America. And despite having several Vikings sail around the world, their settlement left little to no impact whereas Christopher Columbus had a huge impact having several places/things named after him. At the end of the video and in class as well, we are asked to think about whether Columbus was a hero or not.
Whilst in high-school, all the history I had been taught about Columbus was that of him being a hero. A hero for being enough of a risk taker to sail out into ocean. In text books he was seen as a famous Italian explorer who discovered America, but after reading his journal and watching the videos posted online- I personally think that it is evident that he may have been a brave man- but he was a greedy man. How do you call a rapist a hero?
The Meeting of the two worlds video by Angela pope et all- (0.49) the image shows Christopher Columbus with a huge cross and natives/indigenous people all around him subtly bowing down to him. This picture struck me due to the stark type of it because it shows the nature of who he really was- making people do things for him, and having complete dominance over the native people whilst they obey him out of fear or no choice.
He damaged the lives of a lot of Native Americans by partaking the slave trade. His crew and him killed a huge population, and all his ideas were erroneous because he was not the first to have discovered the land, Indians had been there way prior.
"Columbus makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent"
After watching the videos, it boggles my mind why he’s had places and things named after him, especially for having public holidays like Columbus Day when in actuality it should be called Indigenous People’s day.
Whilst some are able to recognize Columbus for the courage, determination and will he embodied, I still do not see how he can be considered a hero- he is much more a fake idol.
Week 2: Meeting of Two Worlds:
Posted by: feedwordpress
The video talks about how the idea of Latin America and why and how it became popular. The mythical point of contact: 1492 October 12th was the instant Latin America begun. Whilst watching this video, I discovered that this was the year there was a great divide between pre-colonial, pre-Hispanic and pre Latin America. And despite having several Vikings sail around the world, their settlement left little to no impact whereas Christopher Columbus had a huge impact having several places/things named after him. At the end of the video and in class as well, we are asked to think about whether Columbus was a hero or not.
Whilst in high-school, all the history I had been taught about Columbus was that of him being a hero. A hero for being enough of a risk taker to sail out into ocean. In text books he was seen as a famous Italian explorer who discovered America, but after reading his journal and watching the videos posted online- I personally think that it is evident that he may have been a brave man- but he was a greedy man. How do you call a rapist a hero?
The Meeting of the two worlds video by Angela pope et all- (0.49) the image shows Christopher Columbus with a huge cross and natives/indigenous people all around him subtly bowing down to him. This picture struck me due to the stark type of it because it shows the nature of who he really was- making people do things for him, and having complete dominance over the native people whilst they obey him out of fear or no choice.
He damaged the lives of a lot of Native Americans by partaking the slave trade. His crew and him killed a huge population, and all his ideas were erroneous because he was not the first to have discovered the land, Indians had been there way prior.
"Columbus makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent"
After watching the videos, it boggles my mind why he’s had places and things named after him, especially for having public holidays like Columbus Day when in actuality it should be called Indigenous People’s day.
Whilst some are able to recognize Columbus for the courage, determination and will he embodied, I still do not see how he can be considered a hero- he is much more a fake idol.
