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Week 6 – Citizenship and Rights

This week’s material did not really surprise me at all. After learning about the social disorder and disagreement that followed independence in Latin American nations last week, it seemed to follow suit that there would be immense class, gender and racial struggles as well. During this era, many nations sought to define civil rights as […]

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Week 6 – Citizenship and Rights

This week’s material did not really surprise me at all. After learning about the social disorder and disagreement that followed independence in Latin American nations last week, it seemed to follow suit that there would be immense class, gender and racial struggles as well. During this era, many nations sought to define civil rights as […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with civil rights, class, Discrimination, emancipation, Equality, feminism, identity, racism, slavery

Week 5 – Caudillos

I found this week’s discussion of the caudillos really interesting because I saw so many parallels between caudillos and clientelism with today’s political figures and government. Like many political fanatics, I have been trying to understand how Donald Trump won the presidency in the US last year, and after watching how he appeals to his […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with caudillos, Esteban Echeverria, government, identity, liberalism, Slaughterhouse, social order

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 3: The Colonial Experience

The anxiety about our inability to communicate did not really make sense to me until I recalled the story of the False Creek Indians in 1913. Having been forced to evacuate their reserve and having had to load their belongings on a barge taking them away from their land, the Natives did not go far … Continue reading “WEEK 3: The Colonial Experience”

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Week Three

Towards the end of the Casta paintings article the author states that there are many questions still regarding “the circulation, patronage, and reception” of the paintings. While I agree that there is much still to be determined and confirmed, I think that some inferences can be made. The article already gives examples for the reception. … Continue reading “Week Three”

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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

Week 3- Casta Paintings and the Colonial Experience

This week we have looked at various casta paintings and how they reflect the ‘colonial experience’. At a first glance, through the lecture video and just by viewing the casta painting I have attached, it is easy to see that the colonial experience was NOT easy to navigate and had many more levels of social […]

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Week Three

When I saw the Casta paintings I initially found them to be quite offensive and racist, as their only purpose…

Posted in Blogs, Week 3 | Tagged with afro-latina, casta, colonial experience, colorism, crisis of representation, identity, latinx, otherness, racism, representations, stereotypes

Week 3 – Who are we

I find colonization as one of the most Interesting subjects. Once again, we can see that the Spanish intentions were never those of converting the natives into Christianism but to use them as slaves, this is represented in the “castas” system as the different pictures showed the different “new races”, and because in every one … Sigue leyendo Week 3 – Who are we →

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