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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 >>

Week Six: “Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics” The concept of citizenship, at least from the modern democratic point of view, is a recent one. Its meaning changes through time and what it represents may also depends of who is at the top of the hierarchical scale implementing laws and regulations. In the case […] read full post >>

Week Six: “Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics” The concept of citizenship, at least from the modern democratic point of view, is a recent one. Its meaning changes through time and what it represents may also depends of who is at the top of the hierarchical scale implementing laws and regulations. In the case […] read full post >>

This weeks readings were very interesting, focusing on the challenging movements towards equality for all citizens. Beginning with The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, this document is better than nothing but it does not include women or slaves. This chapter focuses further into the impacts of independence and the race issues as a result, […] read full post >>

[Pardon the tardiness: my original response got lost before I was to upload it due to an app malfunction on my device…. So here we go: Week Five response round two.] I found the concept of the Caudillo very interesting. I was intrigued by the fact that the Caudillos emerged by themselves out of the … Continue reading Week Five → read full post >>

[Pardon the tardiness: my original response got lost before I was to upload it due to an app malfunction on my device…. So here we go: Week Five response round two.] I found the concept of the Caudillo very interesting. I was intrigued by the fact that the Caudillos emerged by themselves out of the … Continue reading Week Five → read full post >>

This weeks readings were very interesting, focusing on the challenging movements towards equality for all citizens. Beginning with The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, this document is better than nothing but it does not include women or slaves. This chapter focuses further into the impacts of independence and the race issues as a result, […] read full post >>

I found it very interesting when, in the chapter ‘Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics’, they wrote that ‘freedom and equality have always been the product of local circumstances’ (73). It’s as if they’re saying either that freedom and equality are subjective and look different to different people (that different people have different ideas … Continue reading Week Six → read full post >>

I found it very interesting when, in the chapter ‘Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics’, they wrote that ‘freedom and equality have always been the product of local circumstances’ (73). It’s as if they’re saying either that freedom and equality are subjective and look different to different people (that different people have different ideas … Continue reading Week Six → read full post >>

It was interesting to learn about how societies, culture, and views transformed in the new republics in Latin America. I had always thought that equality and freedom rights would have followed quickly after independence. In the contrary, I came to see ... read full post >>