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I find the history of rights and citizenship in Latin America to be quite interesting. The history of slavery in the region draws parallels to the U.S. Southern States where a lot of the economy was based around slavery, even after slavery was abolishe... read full post >>

I find the history of rights and citizenship in Latin America to be quite interesting. The history of slavery in the region draws parallels to the U.S. Southern States where a lot of the economy was based around slavery, even after slavery was abolishe... read full post >>

After reading Alexander Dawson’s “Citizenship and Rights in New Republics”, I felt that this is something I have heard and read before. When a former colony gains freedom, it struggles to stand on its two feet. While the nation is bursting with happiness for their recently gained freedom, they are put into shackles of economic… read full post >>

This week’s reading focused on the issue of slavery, citizenship and rights across Latin America. One sentence in the first few pages of the chapter stood out to me, that “post-independence formal discrimination would be replaced by unofficial practices that accomplished the same ends” (Dawson, 75). Essentially, the New World would continue to discriminate based […] read full post >>

The development or lack thereof of racism, in Latin America follows a very different path to the one we learnt about in North America and the rest of the world. The highly mixed society, and complex slave economy placed slaves into a category of their own, leaving the rest of society “void” of racial stratification. While […] read full post >>

This week’s reading in the book provided a greater insight on the development of citizenship and rights in the Americas. I liked that the progression of slavery in Latin America was continuously compared to the United State’s progression. I was able to see the difference between how USA and Brazil regarded slaves.  For instance, Brazil tended to… Continue reading Week Six – Citizenship and Rights in the New Republic read full post >>

This week the reading was heavy. The title of the chapter is misleading, as the majority of folks did not experience anything close to equal human rights in the New Republic. Something that stood out to me was the 100 year span between when the first country in LA abolished slavery to when the last […] read full post >>

This weeks readings awoke my inner feminist as I read through the different document and Dawson’s interpretations. The uneven spread of how citizenship was given out, was not something I was unfamiliar with but still surprised me. “…[U]topian liberals in various parts of the region tried to strike down all barriers (again, except those that excluded women)…”(page 75), this very sentence in my opinion is a great window into the matter that women were not even second-class citizens but something lower. They were to be hidden away in homes and...read more read full post >>

This week’s reading start by mentioning the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, and how the caste and race were critical categories in the citizenship debates of the early republican period. It was a bit puzzling to read how the most enlightened group of people couldn’t see lower castes people as equal, and […] read full post >>

This week’s reading starts with an assertion that I find to be both insightful and true: “In theory, freedom and... read full post >>