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This week in ASTU we analyzed Chute’s article “The texture of retracing in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis” and our group focused on the section about “Style and Trauma: The Child”. In this section, Chute suggests how the abstract drawings of Satrapi presents the horror during the Iran revolution. In the article, Chute gave the example of… read full post >>

The reading this week was quite interesting. The formation of rights and rules of citizenship was complicated and difficult following the independence of Latin America, and again varied greatly between different republics. You had some greatly conflicting ideas coming together and clashing, with the emergence of both 19th century liberalism and 19th century “scientific racism”. […] read full post >>

The reading this week was quite interesting. The formation of rights and rules of citizenship was complicated and difficult following the independence of Latin America, and again varied greatly between different republics. You had some greatly conflicting ideas coming together and clashing, with the emergence of both 19th century liberalism and 19th century “scientific racism”. […] read full post >>

I found this week’s readings about how the concepts of race and class interacted very interesting. As Alec Dawson pointed out in the podcast, the entire society was organized around this hierarchy of difference, where a small ruling class categorized and ruled over numerous other diverse groups. It goes without saying that the people who […] read full post >>

I found this week’s readings about how the concepts of race and class interacted very interesting. As Alec Dawson pointed out in the podcast, the entire society was organized around this hierarchy of difference, where a small ruling class categorized and ruled over numerous other diverse groups. It goes without saying that the people who […] read full post >>

A question that arose in my mind while I was Reading Dawson’s analysis before the primary documents was why did certain countries like Cuba and Haiti’s emancipation begin with the efforts of the slaves themselves, and in other countries the movement began with Liberals and planters like in Brazil. I am also surprised that the […] read full post >>

A question that arose in my mind while I was Reading Dawson’s analysis before the primary documents was why did certain countries like Cuba and Haiti’s emancipation begin with the efforts of the slaves themselves, and in other countries the movement began with Liberals and planters like in Brazil. I am also surprised that the […] read full post >>

I found this week’s readings extremely interesting, regarding the human rights movements within Latin America. Being from the United States, they teach us from a very young age about slavery in America from the past. From youth we’re shown that it was usually just the white man in power while the other races were overlooked […] read full post >>

I found this week’s readings extremely interesting, regarding the human rights movements within Latin America. Being from the United States, they teach us from a very young age about slavery in America from the past. From youth we’re shown that it was usually just the white man in power while the other races were overlooked […] read full post >>

I found this week’s homework to be very interesting, which focuses on how people viewed each other in Latin America from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. I say the nineteenth century because this is how far our homework extended, although I feel that racial disparities are still apparent in Latin America. I found […] read full post >>