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Week 7: The Export Boom of Modernity

At the turn of the Twentieth Century, the potential of Latin America seemed to be unfolding in a favourable way or at least by first glance. This is how I first viewed it when I read about it in books when I was trying to learn about Argentina and Mexico from afar. Argentina was within […]

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Casta paintings

I really enjoyed reading about and analyzing the Casta paintings. Even without reading about them, it is obvious just by looking that one of their main purposes is to show the ways in which different races mix. But, as the reading suggests, these paintings could be seen as telling us more than just about racial […]

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