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Week Six: Citizenship and Rights

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 →

Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with Catholicism, feminism, race, religion, rights, slavery, social contract

Bolivar and Colonial Irony

Sometimes I’m taken aback by the lack of self awareness shown by those at the top of social and political hierarchy. If any group is going to be a group of oppressors it is this demographic. However oppressors practically never … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 4 | Tagged with Bolívar, colonialism, Power, slavery

Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics II

Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics II

video by Jack Willis and Megan McEvoy

Posted in Student Videos - 2015, Week 6 Videos | Tagged with Brazil, C19th, Cuba, gender, Haiti, race, slavery

The Meeting of Two Worlds IV

The Meeting of Two Worlds IV

video by Thomas Seagrave, Daniel Fielburg, Jasmin Jhaj, Rick Cheng, and Christine Santa María

Posted in Student Videos - 2016, Week 2 Videos | Tagged with Columbus, slavery

WEEK 13: Towards an Uncertain Future

Latin America has come a long way since its discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1492, yet it still has many centuries of history to catch up on. Although it has recently entered the global marketplace, Latin America is not as the same stage as the Northern counties. As part of the developing world, its priorities are … Continue reading “WEEK 13: Towards an Uncertain Future”

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with American Dream, buen vivir, Corruption, future, globalization, inequality, nature, Potential, slavery, uncertainty

Week 6

This week’s idea that race is simply a social construct and not a biological fact is something that had not crossed my mind before but now seems so obvious that I feel silly for not thinking about it before. Race is defined differently among different societies, which I find often leads to the question of […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with feminist, Freedom, rights, slavery

Week Six

The concept of Citizenship and Rights and the path people of South America took to achieve their rights is an important one and helps us to understand their current situation better. During the lecture presentation video, we we asked to consider 3 main questions: How does a history of slavery shape the Americas today? Are […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with Citizenship, rights, slavery

6- Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics

What stood out  for me this week was the quantity of slaves that came into Latin America. I always thought that slaves in Latin America were mostly the indigenous people and I did not know that a great number of slaves were people of colour. It surprised me to have never heard about it in […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with Brazil, liberalism, people of colour, racism, slavery

Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics.

This week discussed the mass shipment of slaves from Africa into Latin America and how slavery was existent in some places until the late 1800’s. The question from the video that intrigued me the most was how does a history of Slavery Shape the America’s Today? Through my travels to Cuba and the Dominican Republic, I […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Citizenship, Equality, rights, slavery

Week 6

Historically speaking, Rights have been far less assumed than argued for. The rights that today we strongly believe in and take for granted, have all once been fought for. Today we may seem to think that “everyone is equal before the law” but in practice, unfortunately, this isn’t the case today and definitely wasn’t 100 … Continue reading Week 6

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Freedom and rights, latin america, racial classification, slavery

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