This week we’re are discussing the role of Caudillos in the course of post-independence Latin America. I think a good place to start is with this quote from the Dawson text. “ They (caudillos) were figures who entered the vacuum of power left by the collapse of the Spanish colonial state and who offered hope […]
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This week we’re are discussing the role of Caudillos in the course of post-independence Latin America. I think a good place to start is with this quote from the Dawson text. “ They (caudillos) were figures who entered the vacuum of power left by the collapse of the Spanish colonial state and who offered hope […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with Bolívar, Brazil, caudillo, clientelism, independence, Mexico, Nation state, Santa Anna
1492 was the fall of Granada brought to an 800 year of Muslim war. The Alhambra showed how Jews were all evicted, and how this can be described as ethnic cleansing. The new world claimed that the people were natural slaves whereas the Las casas saw them as potential Christian converts.
This was by far the most interesting video I have seen to date from taking this class.
It was shocking to see how the population of indigenous populations of the Americas had been halved in 1550. This then caused importing of slaves from Africa- it was interesting to see this as in high school in Kenya, we had been taught the history of slavery from the African perspective, reading textbooks that show how Africans had been exploited and to what degree. The lectures and videos showed me an entirely different lens to what had been going on the complete other end of the world in regard to African slaves and how they had been used on sugar plantations as well as why they had been imported and this had been due to a huge drop in the number of slaves that were already living in America at the time.
I previously had no knowledge that countries like Brazil had some of the highest numbers of slaves, this was a country that I would have previously never associated with the notion of slavery. It was because of this that the “Casta paintings” evolved. This was a hierarchy drawn out into dived boxes or grinds. Each grind representing or assigning racial combinations to names and a series of attributes such as clothing, occupation, land and housing. Casta painting were always almost always multiple and are a series of 16 scenes of racial mixture represented in a family group. It showed groups of:
Mestizo: white and indigenous
Chino: indigenous and black
Brazil at the time had significant black populations of: 35% Ameridian and 28% Mestizo. Again, this had been new to me, I had no idea Brazil had African’s in their country at the time.
It makes me question however, who classified all these images and where did the names for the racial ethnicities like “Mestizo” come from?
Posted in Blogs, Week 3 | Tagged with africa, Brazil, casta paintings, chino, christian, clothing, granada, import, land, mestizo, mulato, muslim war, racial, slavery
1492 was the fall of Granada brought to an 800 year of Muslim war. The Alhambra showed how Jews were all evicted, and how this can be described as ethnic cleansing. The new world claimed that the people were natural slaves whereas the Las casas saw them as potential Christian converts.
This was by far the most interesting video I have seen to date from taking this class.
It was shocking to see how the population of indigenous populations of the Americas had been halved in 1550. This then caused importing of slaves from Africa- it was interesting to see this as in high school in Kenya, we had been taught the history of slavery from the African perspective, reading textbooks that show how Africans had been exploited and to what degree. The lectures and videos showed me an entirely different lens to what had been going on the complete other end of the world in regard to African slaves and how they had been used on sugar plantations as well as why they had been imported and this had been due to a huge drop in the number of slaves that were already living in America at the time.
I previously had no knowledge that countries like Brazil had some of the highest numbers of slaves, this was a country that I would have previously never associated with the notion of slavery. It was because of this that the “Casta paintings” evolved. This was a hierarchy drawn out into dived boxes or grinds. Each grind representing or assigning racial combinations to names and a series of attributes such as clothing, occupation, land and housing. Casta painting were always almost always multiple and are a series of 16 scenes of racial mixture represented in a family group. It showed groups of:
Mestizo: white and indigenous
Chino: indigenous and black
Brazil at the time had significant black populations of: 35% Ameridian and 28% Mestizo. Again, this had been new to me, I had no idea Brazil had African’s in their country at the time.
It makes me question however, who classified all these images and where did the names for the racial ethnicities like “Mestizo” come from?
Posted in Blogs, Week 3 | Tagged with africa, Brazil, casta paintings, chino, christian, clothing, granada, import, land, mestizo, mulato, muslim war, racial, slavery
1492 was the fall of Granada brought to an 800 year of Muslim war. The Alhambra showed how Jews were all evicted, and how this can be described as ethnic cleansing. The new world claimed that the people were natural slaves whereas the Las casas saw them as potential Christian converts.
This was by far the most interesting video I have seen to date from taking this class.
It was shocking to see how the population of indigenous populations of the Americas had been halved in 1550. This then caused importing of slaves from Africa- it was interesting to see this as in high school in Kenya, we had been taught the history of slavery from the African perspective, reading textbooks that show how Africans had been exploited and to what degree. The lectures and videos showed me an entirely different lens to what had been going on the complete other end of the world in regard to African slaves and how they had been used on sugar plantations as well as why they had been imported and this had been due to a huge drop in the number of slaves that were already living in America at the time.
I previously had no knowledge that countries like Brazil had some of the highest numbers of slaves, this was a country that I would have previously never associated with the notion of slavery. It was because of this that the “Casta paintings” evolved. This was a hierarchy drawn out into dived boxes or grinds. Each grind representing or assigning racial combinations to names and a series of attributes such as clothing, occupation, land and housing. Casta painting were always almost always multiple and are a series of 16 scenes of racial mixture represented in a family group. It showed groups of:
Mestizo: white and indigenous
Chino: indigenous and black
Brazil at the time had significant black populations of: 35% Ameridian and 28% Mestizo. Again, this had been new to me, I had no idea Brazil had African’s in their country at the time.
It makes me question however, who classified all these images and where did the names for the racial ethnicities like “Mestizo” come from?
Posted in Blogs, Week 3 | Tagged with africa, Brazil, casta paintings, chino, christian, clothing, granada, import, land, mestizo, mulato, muslim war, racial, slavery
1492 was the fall of Granada brought to an 800 year of Muslim war. The Alhambra showed how Jews were all evicted, and how this can be described as ethnic cleansing. The new world claimed that the people were natural slaves whereas the Las casas saw them as potential Christian converts.
This was by far the most interesting video I have seen to date from taking this class.
It was shocking to see how the population of indigenous populations of the Americas had been halved in 1550. This then caused importing of slaves from Africa- it was interesting to see this as in high school in Kenya, we had been taught the history of slavery from the African perspective, reading textbooks that show how Africans had been exploited and to what degree. The lectures and videos showed me an entirely different lens to what had been going on the complete other end of the world in regard to African slaves and how they had been used on sugar plantations as well as why they had been imported and this had been due to a huge drop in the number of slaves that were already living in America at the time.
I previously had no knowledge that countries like Brazil had some of the highest numbers of slaves, this was a country that I would have previously never associated with the notion of slavery. It was because of this that the “Casta paintings” evolved. This was a hierarchy drawn out into dived boxes or grinds. Each grind representing or assigning racial combinations to names and a series of attributes such as clothing, occupation, land and housing. Casta painting were always almost always multiple and are a series of 16 scenes of racial mixture represented in a family group. It showed groups of:
Mestizo: white and indigenous
Chino: indigenous and black
Brazil at the time had significant black populations of: 35% Ameridian and 28% Mestizo. Again, this had been new to me, I had no idea Brazil had African’s in their country at the time.
It makes me question however, who classified all these images and where did the names for the racial ethnicities like “Mestizo” come from?
Posted in Blogs, Week 3 | Tagged with africa, Brazil, casta paintings, chino, christian, clothing, granada, import, land, mestizo, mulato, muslim war, racial, slavery
Personally, I found this weeks readings and videos very interesting and intriguing. Not only did it focus on the big picture of the colonial experience in the Americas, but also on specific aspects of this time period. For example, the infamous Casta paintings and the legacy of Catalina de Erauso. Firstly, I would like to […]
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Just found an article online that deals kinda with the same thing. Some members of the Yanomami tribe, near the border of Brazil and Colombia, have been slaughtered by some ruthless, illegal gold miners.
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/uncontacte…
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I find week thirteen’s homework to be interesting as it focuses contemporary times and what the future holds for different countries in Latin America. In particular, I liked Maxwell Cameron’s conversation, “The Left Turns.” Early in the video, Cameron mentions that, in the past as countries would transition from neoliberalism to the rise of the left, […]
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I find week thirteen’s homework to be interesting as it focuses contemporary times and what the future holds for different countries in Latin America. In particular, I liked Maxwell Cameron’s conversation, “The Left Turns.” Early in the video, Cameron mentions that, in the past as countries would transition from neoliberalism to the rise of the left, […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 13 | Tagged with Bolivia, Brazil, Cameron, democracy, future, theleftturns, week13