Modernity. It’s more than just thinking about the next greatest invention and it’s more than the fantasied sci-fi idea. I think when you first read or hear the word “modernity” you think innovation or you think of our country as a whole being what we believe to be modern. It is of the time. Continue reading “Week 7: The Export Boom as Modernity”
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How shocking the polar opposite views of modernity are. It seems to be contrasting and in the end, ironic. Modernity…
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After this week’s lecture, I decided to take some time to reflect on the first question about how the history of slavery shape the Americas and also on feminism in the Americas at the time. For starters, we constantly see reminders of systemic racism not only in the modern day Americas, but all over theContinue reading “Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics”
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The imposition of a hierarchy is essential to the colonial operation. It sets up a “perfect” to rule over the “imperfect”. How then does a previous colonial state move away from this embedded hierarchy? Slavery is a clear example of the colonial caste system in Latin America. It distinguishes a class of people as propertyContinue reading “Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics”
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While watching this weeks video I found myself interested by the suggestions that the appearance of modernity and true modernization are two very different things. I think when most of us imagine a modern society we do think of outward … Continue reading →
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While watching this weeks video I found myself interested by the suggestions that the appearance of modernity and true modernization are two very different things. I think when most of us imagine a modern society we do think of outward … Continue reading →
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This week’s topic focused on rights and emancipation, particularly in the aspects of race and gender. It is quite jarring to think about the reality of race and the effects it had — and frankly still has — on both North and South America. For instance, the very fact that the last abolition date of […]
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This week we are learning about why liberalism never quite thrived in Latin America, and why perhaps liberal ideals were never fully absorbed and integrated into Latin American cultures and societies. As we learnt last week, the Caudillo revolutionaries had ideologically great ideas for the future of Latin America, included in these were: freedom, equality, …
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In this week’s discussion of citizenship and rights in the new republic, what grabbed my attention the most was the description of emancipation as a process. It is easy to think back about the dates you learned in school and consider them to be specific points in time when there was a sudden change, and […]
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Have you ever stopped to analyze the national anthem of your country? That’s what this week’s readings made me do. “De la paz en la dicha suprema,Siempre noble soñó El Salvador;Fue obtenerla su eterno problema,Conservarla es su gloria mayor.” This excerpt of the national anthem says that El Salvador always dreamed of being in the “supreme bliss” of peace and how achieving this was an eternalContinue reading “Week 6 | Mutation of Emancipation”
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