I was standing at a museum in Mexico when I learned for the first time of the names and titles given to all the mixture of races. I remember being baffled while I stared at the chart of names that seemed to continually grow. My mom explained that after the conquistadores came, the Spaniards and […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 3 | Tagged with casta paintings, Catalina de Erauso, Colonial, Mexico, race
I first clicked the Lieutenant Nun reading link on our LAST website and stared into the eyes of this man in this portrait. I thought nothing of it and continued reading the introduction to the story or article, whatever you want to call it. I finished reading the introduction and forgot about the portrait by …
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I first clicked the Lieutenant Nun reading link on our LAST website and stared into the eyes of this man in this portrait. I thought nothing of it and continued reading the introduction to the story or article, whatever you want to call it. I finished reading the introduction and forgot about the portrait by …
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with casta, female, male, Mexico, nun, pop culture, racism, sexism, week3
While it is true that early 20th century Mexico fell into economic, social, and political crises after the fall of Porfirio Diaz in 1911 I believe it is unfair to portray all of Latin America as going into crisis when only one country starts to revolt. While it is true that the Mexican Revolution started […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with False Crisis, Mexico, Raza Cosmica, Vasconcelos
Modernity came to Latin America tied to two basic principles: Order, and Progress. With order came progress, and with progress came modernity. Modernity was closely tied to capitalism, growth of the gross domestic product (GDP), increased foreign investment, and paying off national debt. Modernization meant having street-lamps, railways, automobiles, and flight, among other similar things. […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with Mexico, modernity, Order and Progress, Porfirio Díaz
This is another period in which Latin America seems to be involved in conflict; this week’s chapter says that between 1960 and 1990, Latin America had one of its bloodiest periods since independence. And this got me thinking, has it this being happening since Christopher Columbus discovered America, I mean, the taken over, used other […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with America, Colonial, latin america, latino, Mexico, modernity, Peru
This is another period in which Latin America seems to be involved in conflict; this week’s chapter says that between 1960 and 1990, Latin America had one of its bloodiest periods since independence. And this got me thinking, has it this being happening since Christopher Columbus discovered America, I mean, the taken over, used other […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with America, Colonial, latin america, latino, Mexico, modernity, Peru
One concept that I found particularly interesting was from this weeks’ video when Alexander Dawson said that nobody ‘wins’ a revolution. People win wars but not revolutions. Something else that came up for me during this weeks’ discourse was the question of what do we do now – what do we do TODAY – to … Continue reading Week Eight →
Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with Agrarian Society, colonization, Jose Carlos Mariategui, Jose Vasconcelos, La Raza Cosmica, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Peru, revolution, Zapatistas
I find it very helpful how Dawson will define terms in a way that he will be discussing them. For example, he defines “revolution” in a way different from what I have ever heard. When I think of “revolution,” I think of a period of time of drastic change: a time of emancipation for specific […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with Argentina, Argentine, assignment 8, Dawson, economy, Mexico, revolution
I find it very helpful how Dawson will define terms in a way that he will be discussing them. For example, he defines “revolution” in a way different from what I have ever heard. When I think of “revolution,” I think of a period of time of drastic change: a time of emancipation for specific […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with Argentina, Argentine, assignment 8, Dawson, economy, Mexico, revolution
