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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”
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 […]
Through this week’s reading and videos, it was very powerful to see how las madres de plaza de mayo used…
Alec Dawson on flows of people and goods (podcast)
week 12 lecture (video)
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 […]
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 […]
