Week Three: “The Colonial Experience” The ‘discovery’ of the Americas must have been a tremendous cultural experience. I mean, just by encountering new and different peoples, territories, and climates, these circumstances created new socially constructed categories of ‘Otherness’. As commented in the video, what King Ferdinand and Queen Isabela had started with the expulsion of […]
Week Two: “The Meeting of the Two Worlds” As we have seen in the videos and readings, there is a problem when trying to locate Latin America in a geographical sense. Now, we know that Latin America, more than a place which actually exists, is an idea. Its borders are fluid and what is considered […]
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Latin America, when first discovered, was more diverse than Colonial Asia, Africa, and even North America. Its many riches and interesting people seemed alluring to the Europeans, the Spaniards and later the Portuguese. As Indigenous population decline…
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Latin America, when first discovered, was more diverse than Colonial Asia, Africa, and even North America. Its many riches and interesting people seemed alluring to the Europeans, the Spaniards and later the Portuguese. As Indigenous population decline…
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Latin America, when first discovered, was more diverse than Colonial Asia, Africa, and even North America. Its many riches and interesting people seemed alluring to the Europeans, the Spaniards and later the Portuguese. As Indigenous population declined (thanks to colonization), many Europeans moved African slaves to Latin America, so they would work in the crops (sugar) and mines (gold and silver). This variety in population (blacks, whites, and indigenous) allowed for mixed races to occur: the mulattos (black and white), the zambos (black and indigenous), and mestizos (indigenous and white). As more mixed babies came into the world, the Spaniards started to experience an anxiety: how do we class these people? How do we determine their social worth? This, was the beginning factor in the famous Casta paintings.
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Latin America, when first discovered, was more diverse than Colonial Asia, Africa, and even North America. Its many riches and interesting people seemed alluring to the Europeans, the Spaniards and later the Portuguese. As Indigenous population decline…
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It intrigued me to read both the document about a transgender man and the casta system because they seemed to contradict one another. While the journal of Catalina de Erauso tells the story of one female bodied person who is remarkably accepted by Spanish Royalty as a transgender person, the other reading proves the Spanish […]
In my opinion, the meeting of the Spaniards with present day Latin America was a coincidence that later ensued terror.As stated in the lecture video, the Spaniards were not the first people to encounter the Americas. However, they were the ones that ca…
In my opinion, the meeting of the Spaniards with present day Latin America was a coincidence that later ensued terror.As stated in the lecture video, the Spaniards were not the first people to encounter the Americas. However, they were the ones that ca…
In my opinion, the meeting of the Spaniards with present day Latin America was a coincidence that later ensued terror.As stated in the lecture video, the Spaniards were not the first people to encounter the Americas. However, they were the ones that ca…
