The transition period for any person or collective is always a difficult one, especially when your don’t fully transition as you would when doing a 180 degree turn. She could argue that in the case of post-liberation, new nations and republics simply did a 360 degree circle, concluding where their initial actions begot. In reading […]
Though slavery is not widely accepted throughout the Americas, the ideology behind it still exists. It exists in the way…
A woman deserves the same rights as a man. I think everyone agrees with that statement. Even looking at the time period, reading the letter written by Josefina Pelliza da Sagasta had left me utterly shocked considering the fact she is a woman herself. You can clearly understand how progressive her ideology is and the […]
This week, I feel like there were a wider variety of different or conflicting narratives compared to previous topics. I want to focus on three main points for this post; citizenship, Josefina Pelliza de Sagasta’s writings, and rights in general. I’ve never actually thought about how nations determined the requirements one must fulfill to gain […]
After this week’s lecture, I decided to take some time to reflect on the first question about how the history of slavery shape the Americas and also on feminism in the Americas at the time. For starters, we constantly see reminders of systemic racism not only in the modern day Americas, but all over theContinue reading “Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics”
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This week’s topic focused on rights and emancipation, particularly in the aspects of race and gender. It is quite jarring to think about the reality of race and the effects it had — and frankly still has — on both North and South America. For instance, the very fact that the last abolition date of […]
I thoroughly enjoyed this week’s content as I am personally very interested in the nitty-gritty of rights discourse! Where do they come from? Do they even really exist? Are they simply western constructions? What about the tension between culture and … Continue reading
