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The transition period for any person or collective is always a difficult one, especially when your don’t fully transition as you would when doing a 180 degree turn. She could argue that in the case of post-liberation, new nations and republics simply did a 360 degree circle, concluding where their initial actions begot. In reading […] read full post >>

Though slavery is not widely accepted throughout the Americas, the ideology behind it still exists. It exists in the way... read full post >>

I believe I would have had a very hard time living in a world where women were as Josefi na Pelliza de Sagasta described it. One where “Entirely free women, with as much independence as men, would lose their greatest charms and the poetic prestige of their weakness.” If I’m brutally honest, that was probablyContinue reading "Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republic" read full post >>

I believe I would have had a very hard time living in a world where women were as Josefi na Pelliza de Sagasta described it. One where “Entirely free women, with as much independence as men, would lose their greatest charms and the poetic prestige of their weakness.” If I’m brutally honest, that was probablyContinue reading "Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republic" read full post >>

I thought this week’s lecture was a very interesting topic regarding race and rights. Something important that I learned was how there are still lasting effects from slavery in the Americas today. There is still institutionalized racism/discrimination. I thought it was interesting to compare Latin America’s struggle with slavery to the United states. Emancipation wasContinue reading "Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics" read full post >>

For this week’s blog post, I want to reflect on the legacy of slavery. The questions that Professor Jon asked... read full post >>

A woman deserves the same rights as a man. I think everyone agrees with that statement. Even looking at the time period, reading the letter written by Josefina Pelliza da Sagasta had left me utterly shocked considering the fact she is a woman herself. You can clearly understand how progressive her ideology is and the […] read full post >>

This week, I feel like there were a  wider variety of different or conflicting narratives compared to previous topics. I want to focus on three main points for this post; citizenship, Josefina Pelliza de Sagasta’s writings, and rights in general. I’ve never actually thought about how nations determined the requirements one must fulfill to gain […] read full post >>

For this blog post I want to focus on “Brushstrokes” by María Eugenia Echenique. I first want to say that I love how her text begins: “I have held my pen in hand for five minutes, and I still do not know what I am going to write about.” Right from the very beginning I […] read full post >>

This week’s lecture brought up that there is a gap between the abstract domain of rights and the practical integration of them. Even then, once they are incorporated, it may be for alternative motives. For example, Dawson noted how some formerly enslaved black slave owners in Haiti embraced emancipation not for the virtue of it […] read full post >>