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CASTILHO, C. (2016). “CELEBRATIONS OF FREEDOM”: ABOLITION ANDTHE CHANGING DEBATES OVER CITIZENSHIP. In Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship (pp. 161-191). Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1f89r7s.11 For our project, we were assigned Chapter 3 in Alec Dawson’s textbook and Week 6 of the course. Topics discussed in this portion of the …

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The access to the doctrine of terror survivors’ testimonies has the power to unveil the truth and expose how their husbands, wives, children, friends, parents, and everything they possessed were violently taken away by a “state terrorist organized and supported by the United States” (Chomsky 21). On the morning of December 11th, 1981, the SalvadoranContinue reading "Research Assignment | “The Doctrine of Terror:a Testimony” (Source 2)" read full post >>

Macón, Cecilia. “Santa Evita Montonera: Envious, therefore Empowered.” Journal of Romance Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-28. In the article “Santa Evita Montonera: Envious, therefore empowered”(2015), Cecilia Macón examines the characteristics that made Eva Perón both a saint and a villain, and the difficulties of female political agency in terms of affects. AccordingContinue reading "Writing Research Assignment Pt II" read full post >>

Macón, Cecilia. “Santa Evita Montonera: Envious, therefore Empowered.” Journal of Romance Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-28. In the article “Santa Evita Montonera: Envious, therefore empowered”(2015), Cecilia Macón examines the characteristics that made Eva Perón both a saint and a villain, and the difficulties of female political agency in terms of affects. AccordingContinue reading "Writing Research Assignment Pt II" read full post >>

Primary source: Evita’s renouncement speech “Eva Perón’s last speech (1951).” Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr7ymWtnHWc It was 1951, and from the top of a scaffolding built on Avenida Nueve de Julio in Buenos Aires stood the Spiritual Leader of the Nation, Argentina’s first lady, Eva Perón. Beneath her, a crowd of peronistas relentlessly demanded Evita to declare her candidacy toContinue reading "Writing Reasearch Assignment Pt I" read full post >>

Primary source: Evita’s renouncement speech “Eva Perón’s last speech (1951).” Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr7ymWtnHWc It was 1951, and from the top of a scaffolding built on Avenida Nueve de Julio in Buenos Aires stood the Spiritual Leader of the Nation, Argentina’s first lady, Eva Perón. Beneath her, a crowd of peronistas relentlessly demanded Evita to declare her candidacy toContinue reading "Writing Reasearch Assignment Pt I" read full post >>

I am so glad that this weeks reading continued talking about the dirty wars, looking at it not from the point of view of the victims or the perpetrators, but from the side of those who were affected by these disappearances of loved ones. I feel as if we could have spent the whole termContinue reading "Speaking Truth to Power" read full post >>

This past week I went to a panel discussion on whether or not the current situation in Bolivia could be... read full post >>

This past week I went to a panel discussion on whether or not the current situation in Bolivia could be... read full post >>

I’m usually used to writing academic analyses of historical documents and articles, but today I don’t feel like it so here is a less formal piece of writing where I talk about my personal connection to this week’s topic:             🙂 This week’s readings hit home, as much of what was …

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