Anna Lake-Soros and David Waine on rights from the Aztecs to the present
Posted in Student Videos - 2014, Week 6 Videos | Tagged with Aztecs, Bolivia, Citizenship, colonialism, gender, Haiti, indigeneity, Mexico, Peru, race, rights
Un pueblo sin piernas pero que camina. The metaphors continue. There is something captivating about Latin American tendencies to mesh art with politics, aestheticism with power. Martí’s eloquence places him firmly in this tradition. Chávez is decidedly not a poet. Yet his 2004 speech pursues the same themes as those of Martí and Bolívar in his demand for independence for Latin American nations (or nations of “the South”). It would be important, here, to characterize “independence” and how it has been conceived of over time. It is hard not being…read more
Posted in Blogs, Week 4 | Tagged with art, Bolívar, Chávez, colonialism, creativity, independence, indigeneity, Martí, poetry, South
