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Femicide in Latin America

Femicide in Latin America

Video by Cynthia, Madeleine, and Simran

Posted in Student Videos - 2020, Week 12 Videos | Tagged with C21st, gender, Mexico, violence, women

Caudillos and their Origins

Caudillos and their Origins

Video by Jasmine, Sami, and Sarita

Posted in Student Videos - 2020, Week 5 Videos | Tagged with C19th, caudillos, Mexico, Power, Santa Anna, violence

Leading the Terror

Leading the Terror

Video by Emilia, Hannah, Niko, and Nitya

Posted in Student Videos - 2020, Week 11 Videos | Tagged with Argentina, Chile, Dirty Wars, Mexico, religion, Terror, violence

Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power

Four years ago I went to Mexico for the first time. I was visiting my boyfriend’s family who lives in Guadalajara. A beautiful city that I immediately fell in love with. One day we were driving towards the area of Chapultepec when we came up to “La Glorieta de Los Niños Heroes.” An enormous roundaboutContinue reading “Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power”

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Week Twelve – Speaking Truth to Power

Forms of technology and media have taken over our lives in many situations including education, politics, personal lives and careers. As beneficial as it may be, there are certain negative impacts. In Document 10.3 “Aguas Blancas Masacre”, 17 peasants were brutally killed by Guerrero police officers while on their way to a demonstration. The state […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with #guerrero, #mediamanipulation, #speakingtruthtopower, Mexico, week12

Music, Protests and Neoliberalism

Through this week’s reading and videos, it was very powerful to see how las madres de plaza de mayo used…

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Along a Boundary in a Global Age

Along a Boundary in a Global Age

Alec Dawson on flows of people and goods (podcast)

Posted in Podcasts, Week 13, Week 13 Podcasts | Tagged with borders, immigration, Mexico, migration, USA

12. Speaking Truth to Power

12. Speaking Truth to Power

week 12 lecture (video)

Posted in Featured Articles and Videos, Lecture Videos, Week 12 Lecture | Tagged with Argentina, Bolivia, C20th, C21st, Caracazo, Chile, Mexico, Mothers of the Disappeared, Protest, resistance, technology, Venezuela

Research Paper

Sarita Ponce November 17, 2020   The research that I am doing for this video project is to establish a concise biography for General Antonio López de Santa Anna.  The following resources should give an idea of who Santa Anna was and his role in the battle of San Jacinto.   This first resource comes […]

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Week 9 – Commerce, Coercion, and America’s Empire

For this week I wanted to focus on Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart’s “From the Noble Savage to the Third World”, which I found particularly interesting. As someone whose watched several Disney propaganda cartoons produced during WWII, this document brought in familiar themes in many ways. The book represents a form of cultural colonialism that […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with ariel, armand, aztecland, censorship, Chile, Disney, disnify, Donald Duck, Mexico, pinochet, scrooge

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