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My favourite quote in this week’s readings is from “From the Noble Savage to the Third World.” Dorfmann and Mattelart write: “There are two forms of killing: by machine guns and saccharine.” The United States was not only a military … Continue reading → read full post >>

Diaz’s proclamation, in 1908, that he would not run for the presidency opened the floodgates for countless marginalized groups to speak out against modernization. Groups that had for decades been silenced, displaced, repressed, and forced to work for the capitalist … Continue reading → read full post >>

Summary of Hybridity of Its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America by Carolyn Dean and Dana Leibsohn  The article connects to my groups theme of ”The Casta Paintings” in colonial latin america through its content. The article discusses the concepts of ”mixing’, ‘hybridity” (5) and how these concepts were implemented during the colonial period.   The […] read full post >>

Our group is focusing on Week 9: “Commerce, Coercion, and America’s Empire”. This week discusses the United States’ economic influence... read full post >>

Sheinin, D. M. K..Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. Project MUSE For our project, our group decided to focus on the portrayal of different activist groups by the media in Latin America. This chapter from the book Consent of the Damned, Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty […] read full post >>

One of the most interesting aspects of this weeks reading/video was the notion of “terrors” being a conflict between a terror state and a terrorist group. These conditions galvanized one another, with state military groups acting in a brutal and repressive manner due to the percieved threat of the terror group. This threat could find […] read full post >>

Group: The Export Boom as Modernity Symbolism, solitude and modernity: science and scientists in Porfirian Mexico Author: Natalia Priego Priego, Natalia. (2008). Symbolism, solitude and modernity: science and scientists in porfirian Mexico. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, 15(2), 473-485. https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702008000200016   Natalia Priego begins by … Continue reading → read full post >>

   Source: Holmes, Jennifer S. “Sendero Luminoso After Fujimori: A Sub-National Analysis.” The Latin Americanist 59, no. 2 (2015): 29.    For our group project we will be focusing on Peru’s Sendero Luminoso insurgency that was active in the 1970’s through the 1990s, and to some extent in the early 2000’s.  For my part of […] read full post >>

Our group and I are in charge of: “Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics”. As a group, we decided to focus on the topic of women’s rights. For the short research assignment, I decided to choose a source of Latin American … Continue reading → read full post >>

Excerpt from a letter written by Hernan Cortes to Charles V in 1519. Hernan Cortes’ letter describes his stay in a city in Mexico where he and his men were welcomed with open arms by the Indigenous people. We see … Continue reading → read full post >>