I’d like to begin this week’s post by thinking about the term “scientific racism” as it seems to be a key point behind this week’s topic: Citizenship and Rights in the new Republics. Scientific racism, as Dawson describes it, is the belief that some people are destined to rule and others to be ruled. Be […]
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So as the focus of our discussions strays from talk of liberation and how people would go about forming their government to this week, how people were actually living and how their governments were performing in the grand scheme of things, we start to see the many flaws in society as a whole and how not everyone was being treated equally or fairly for that matter. During the mid 19th century, the majority of Latin American citizens lived in rural areas, with a select minority living in the major cities…read more
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So as the focus of our discussions strays from talk of liberation and how people would go about forming their government to this week, how people were actually living and how their governments were performing in the grand scheme of things, we start to see the many flaws in society as a whole and how not everyone was being treated equally or fairly for that matter. During the mid 19th century, the majority of Latin American citizens lived in rural areas, with a select minority living in the major cities…read more
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Citizenship, rights, Weeks 6
So as the focus of our discussions strays from talk of liberation and how people would go about forming their government to this week, how people were actually living and how their governments were performing in the grand scheme of things, we start to see the many flaws in society as a whole and how not everyone was being treated equally or fairly for that matter. During the mid 19th century, the majority of Latin American citizens lived in rural areas, with a select minority living in the major cities…read more
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Citizenship, rights, Weeks 6
I’d like to begin this week’s post by thinking about the term “scientific racism” as it seems to be a key point behind this week’s topic: Citizenship and Rights in the new Republics. Scientific racism, as Dawson describes it, is the belief that some people are destined to rule and others to be ruled. Be […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with Citizenship, colonization, emancipation, republics, rights
Hello! This week I was so intrigued by the comparison between Latin American citizenship and rights discussion versus Canadian citizenship and rights discussion. Although I am originally from Argentina, my academic knowledge of this subject is much more centered in the Canadian indigenous perspective due to the direction my academics have taken me. One of […]
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Hello! This week I was so intrigued by the comparison between Latin American citizenship and rights discussion versus Canadian citizenship and rights discussion. Although I am originally from Argentina, my academic knowledge of this subject is much more centered in the Canadian indigenous perspective due to the direction my academics have taken me. One of […]
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This week’s topic was interesting. It was also surprising, What surprised me? Well… the fact that slavery didn’t really ended with the independece in Latin America. I believe that one of the reasons for which Mexico seeked its independance was to avoid slavery (thing that I also believe was accomplished), however, I never really thought … Sigue leyendo Week 6 – Madness →
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