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Research Assignment: The Meeting of the "Modern" and "Unmodern"
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Source 1: n.a. Christopher Columbus - Voyages to the New World. (n.d.). Retrieved November 20, 2016, from <http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/people/columbus-christopher-voyages-to-new-world.html>
This particular source outlines the four expeditions to the New World Christopher Columbus embarked on. The author’s list the four ships that accompanied Columbus into the New World and explain each expedition in detail. They provide a chronicle of the location, date and time, and summary of the events that occurred once Columbus landed in the New World. The website also includes a historical perspective of Columbus’ voyages. It situates his journey in the landscape of what was occurring at the time, i.e. Columbus was not the first person to travel to the Americas but his expeditions mark the European’s continuous attempts to navigate and colonize the Americas. They also include the ongoing discussion of Columbus’ legacy — whether or not he should be lauded as a hero or a villain in contemporary retellings of his life. This source is crucial to my group’s presentation because it gives us the starting point of Christopher Columbus; from all of these excerpts about his journeys, his successes and failures, and historical perspectives we can begin to piece together a presentation about the meeting of the two worlds. We can seek out the nuances in the story rather than brute overgeneralizations.
Source 2: Todorov, T. (1999) The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other. New York, New York: Harper & Row.
The second source I used was Tzvetan Todorov’s “The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other.” Todorov, a French-Bulgarian philosopher and author writes that Christopher Columbus’ actions marks a profound moment in the creating of identity of the European self. Although his analysis has its flaws, it’s a good place to situate the context of Columbus in our presentation. Todorov stamps the European self as the founder of modernity while the starting point of modernity began on an isolated island in the Caribbean; we acknowledge this idea is problematic as it’s centered around European perspectives however… he does offer our presentation a different rhetoric rather than the constricting colonial subject and colonial power discourse. Todorov points out the uselessness in such a narrative as it destroys the nuances in history which are critical to understanding it; he claims that the “discovery” of America was an attempt by Europeans to destroy the “other” — a means for Europeans to identify themselves as modern and natural while the Americas were unmodern and unnatural. This analysis gives us a much more complex understanding of history which aids us as we address the many issues in Todorov’s philosophy and Columbus’ actions and voyages.
read full post >>Week 10: Power to the People
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This week we looked at the definition to populism and how people through different sorts of technology projected their power. Populism is defined according to the definition given to us by our professor, the nation of the “people,” which was used to define the political events that was going on with Latin America during the […] read full post >>
Week 10: Power to the People
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This week we looked at the definition to populism and how people through different sorts of technology projected their power. Populism is defined according to the definition given to us by our professor, the nation of the “people,” which was used to define the political events that was going on with Latin America during the […] read full post >>
Ch.7-Power to the People
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Chapter 7 is about well-known politicians in Latin America during the 1920s-1930s. The term populism is brought up, and its relevance to Latin America during the 1930s. More advanced technology and mass media is continued in this chapter. This time, what is new are radios, radionovelas, comic books, movies, songs, etc. Listening to the radio … Continue reading read full post >>
Ch.7-Power to the People
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Chapter 7 is about well-known politicians in Latin America during the 1920s-1930s. The term populism is brought up, and its relevance to Latin America during the 1930s. More advanced technology and mass media is continued in this chapter. This time, what is new are radios, radionovelas, comic books, movies, songs, etc. Listening to the radio … Continue reading read full post >>
Short Research Assignment
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Raimundo (Raymundo) Nina Rodrigues, The Fetishist Animism of the Bahian Blacks (O animismo fetichista dos negros bahianos) (1896-1900), excerpt. (Dawson 91-94) This excerpt talks about some of the violence that people had to endure under slavery, specifically in a religious context. Any behaviour or lifestyle that was not Christian, white, and European was considered inferior. Rodrigues explains […] read full post >>
Sources
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Christopher Columbus: The Untold Story. (n.d.). Retrieved November 18, 2016, from http://www.understandingprejudice.org/nativeiq/columbus.htm This article discusses Columbus’ first journey in a different tone than often found in other sources. This focuses on the violent treatment of the natives. This source argues how the Columbus’ racist exploits have gone unnoticed in history, citing how we still celebrate … Continue reading "Sources" read full post >>
Short Research Assignment
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Raimundo (Raymundo) Nina Rodrigues, The Fetishist Animism of the Bahian Blacks (O animismo fetichista dos negros bahianos) (1896-1900), excerpt. (Dawson 91-94) This excerpt talks about some of the violence that people had to endure under slavery, specifically in a religious context. Any behaviour or lifestyle that was not Christian, white, and European was considered inferior. Rodrigues explains […] read full post >>
Project Research
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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-lost-fort-of-columbus-8026921/?no-ist=&fb_locale=es_ES&page=1 This article is taken from Smithonian Magazine, written by Frances Maclean. It talks about the journey of Clark Moore looking for the the place La Navidad, where Christopher Columbus left 39 men of his crew behind at the end of his first voyage, in attempt to start a new civilization. This source adds… read full post >>
Short research: Mexican war of Independence
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Raat, W. Dirk. 1982. Mexico, from independence to revolution, 1810-1910. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. In my first source, I’m talking more about what were the main causes of Independence in Mexico. The independence of Mexico started in because Mexicans were very angry before those years, people from Spain treated them in such a bad […] read full post >>
