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2. The Meeting of Two Worlds

2. The Meeting of Two Worlds

Week 2 lecture (video)

Posted in Lecture Videos, Week 2 Lecture | Tagged with allegory, C15th, C16th, colonization, Columbus, conquest, history, Las Casas, literature, myth, narrative, representation, Todorov

The Meeting of Two Worlds II

The Meeting of Two Worlds II

video by Jackson, Spiro, Chica

Posted in Student Videos - 2016, Week 2 Videos | Tagged with colonization, Columbus

Week 9 – Commerce, Coercion and America’s Empire

This week we learned about how the US grew to become such a neo-colonial power in the early twentieth century with a focus on its military and economic relationships with Latin America. On the military side of things, I found it really interesting how the US used political unrest within a nation for its own […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with Arbenz, bananas, colonization, Dario, identity, Martí, Neo-colonialism, Panama Canal, UFCO, US, violence

Week 8 – El Plan de Ayala

There are many examples around the world of formal decolonization (a.k.a. flag independence). Among the incredible violence that comes before this event, the creation of a formal nation’s borders by colonial powers has led to bloodshed and upheaval. Throughout this … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with caudillo, colonization, decolonization, revolution, Zapatistas

Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics.

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

Week 4: Independence or continued subjugation?

the narrative of independence is a diverse and complicated subject. Dawson’s three narratives are an interesting way to look at the process of independence.  His “stories of freedom” address the uprising led by Tupac Amaro II, and the lasting influence that it had. He mentions that in the eyes of many his rebellion set the […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with colonization, creollo, independence, Jose Marti, rebellion, Simon Bolivar, slavery, slaves

Week 4 – Independence Narratives

This week we delved into how the established colonial societies of the America’s began to resist their imperial rule and gain independence. We discussed how the struggle for independence was both vastly different between nations in cause and methodology and at the same time very similar in that the value of wanting to be free […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 4 | Tagged with colonization, Criollos, hierarchy, identity, independence, Saint Domingue, Simon Bolivar

Week Three

One of the great tragedies of history, it seems to me, is Spain’s apparent inability to recognize value in culture other than its own. Not only did the country conquer and expel those who did not meet the monarchy’s strict standards of conformity at home, they also went abroad and decimated cultures- either through total […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Catagorization, colonization, racism, Spain

Week 3: The Colonial Experience

This week we are looking at the Colonial experience through Cast Paintings, the story of Luitenent Nun, peer videos and lecture. I found the Memoir of Catalina de Eraus very interesting. I had never heard of Catalina nor of another female colonizer. Her journey from a convent, to multiple cities in Spain, to crossing the seas […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Bartolome de las casas, caste paintings, Catalina de eraus, colonies, colonization, creole, lieutenant nun, peninsular

Week 3 – Casta Paintings & Latin American Identity

When learning about history, what seems to stick with me the most is how historical events and ideas manifest themselves in the present day. When reading about casta paintings this week from Susan Deans-Smith’s article, I kept thinking about how these … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Videos, Week 3 | Tagged with casta, casta paintings, colonization, diversity, ethnicity, hierarcies, history, identity, immigration, Peru, race, Venezuela

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