This week’s material did not really surprise me at all. After learning about the social disorder and disagreement that followed independence in Latin American nations last week, it seemed to follow suit that there would be immense class, gender and racial struggles as well. During this era, many nations sought to define civil rights as […]
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This week’s material did not really surprise me at all. After learning about the social disorder and disagreement that followed independence in Latin American nations last week, it seemed to follow suit that there would be immense class, gender and racial struggles as well. During this era, many nations sought to define civil rights as […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with civil rights, class, Discrimination, emancipation, Equality, feminism, identity, racism, slavery
Human Rights have been hailed as humanity’s last-standing hope (Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia, 2010). They are ambitious in potential and broad in scope. Yet, as has been iterated by Prof. Beaseley-Murray in this week’s lecture, the remain “far from ‘self-evident.’” This is because rights are a discourse, not an absolute (expressed by Ronald Dwarkin: “rights as trumps”). Instead, rights must be understood as needing weighing, not hierarchizing (Pildes, The Structural Conception of Rights and Judicial Balancing, 2002). As such rights discourse holds no inherent morality, instead morality must be…read more
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Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics Early years of Latin American history was brutal, with campaigns such as Argentina’s ‘Conquest of the Desert’ that decreased the Mapuches population significantly. Corruption and violence prevented liberal ideas to flourish in Latin America, … Continue reading →
I found the video for this weeks lecture quite interesting. I found that it focused primarily on serious and still ongoing subjects and topic matter, such as slavery throughout the Americas. I believe it is crucial for everyone to learn about slavery and the effects that it carries through society today in order for us […]
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I found the video for this weeks lecture quite interesting. I found that it focused primarily on serious and still ongoing subjects and topic matter, such as slavery throughout the Americas. I believe it is crucial for everyone to learn about slavery and the effects that it carries through society today in order for us […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with Citizenship, de sagasta, echenique, emancipation, rights, slavery
It was funny to read two completely different view of gender. “Women: Dedicated to Miss Maria Eugenia Echenique” by Judith (Josefina Pelliza de Sagatsta) is a letter exchanged with Eugenia Echeniquem, who wrote “Brushstrokes,” and she has completely opposite view for woman against Echenique even though they live in same period. Sagasta is anti-feminist, (and Echenique […]
This chapter talks about the beginning of human rights in Latin America, a very interesting topic. Because of the its multicultural aspect and not having a common race, it made it really hard for Latin America to define what it means to be a “citizen”. In order to create a “united race”, Latin America have…
This week focuses on slavery and the shift of rights & politics in Latin America. I decided to look at the Political Program of the Partido Independiente de Color since we didn’t really discuss it in class. I was curious so I did a little research on the Partido Independiente de Color (PIC) and I learned that […]
This week focuses on slavery and the shift of rights & politics in Latin America. I decided to look at the Political Program of the Partido Independiente de Color since we didn’t really discuss it in class. I was curious so I did a little research on the Partido Independiente de Color (PIC) and I learned that […]
