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For the video project, our group has discussed adding a ‘human’ element to what occurred in Latin America between the 1960s-1980s, rather than simply relate what happened on a macro level and risk losing a real sense of grief over … Continue reading → read full post >>

Free Afro-Brazilians in the 19th Century by Richard Graham In his article Free Afro-Brazilians in the 19th Century Richard Graham aims to describe Brazil’s social order in the 19th century as well as explaining which place free Afro-Brazilians occupied in this order and how they were treated by other members of society. He clarifies thatContinue reading "Short Research Assignment – Source 2" read full post >>

 The Abolition of Brazilian Slavery, 1864–1888 by Ricardo Salles  Due to Brazil being one of the countries that imported the highest numbers of slaves from the African continent and being the last country in Latin America to abolish slavery we chose to focus on researching its emancipation progress. Because Ricardo Salles’ article titled The AbolitionContinue reading "Short Research Assignment – Source 1" read full post >>

Reading about the multitude of protests and activist movements that began to appear rapidly in 1970’s Latin America this week, I couldn’t help but draw connections between the protests of the past and the present. The protests that I found myself comparing were the Madres movements of Argentina in 1977, and the Climate Action movementsContinue reading "Week 12: Protests; Attention vs. Change" read full post >>

For our video on The Terror, we are going to be focusing on the civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala. We will use testimonials from people who survived these wars to give a more personal perspective on the events. For more general background information on the region as a whole, we will use Latin […] read full post >>

Díaz-Combs, Claudia. 2018. ‘Fluye el Petróleo, Sangra la Selva (as the oil flows, the jungle  bleeds): Ecuador vs. Chevron’, Center... read full post >>

Díaz-Combs, Claudia. 2018. ‘Fluye el Petróleo, Sangra la Selva (as the oil flows, the jungle  bleeds): Ecuador vs. Chevron’, Center... read full post >>

Santos, Eduardo Antonio Estevam. (2015). Luiz Gama and the racial satire as the transgression poetry: diasporic poetry as counter-narrative to the idea of race. Almanack, (11), 707-727. https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2236-463320151108 The second source we have selected for our project is an article from a study within a doctoral thesis in Social History defended at PCUP in 2014, …

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Raja, Shahzad. “The Cuban Revolution 3/5.” YouTube. February 28, 2011. Video, 10:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3sZi9h_cwU. The beginning of the video pans across the fighters. The men range dramatically in appearance and stature, which depicts the normality of the individuals and warfare in Cuba. The appearance of the men do not instantly evoke the image of war and […] read full post >>

Jany, N. (2018). The Cuban revolution of 1959 – legitimating an ongoing revolutionary process. [online] Sozialpolitik.ch. Available at: https://www.sozialpolitik.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/2018_1_Forum_Jany.pdf [Accessed 19 Nov. 2019]. The text explains how the Cuban Revolution came about in the late 1950s, and how the ideology attached to the movement penetrated to the foundations of Cuban society, and it is still […] read full post >>