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 […]
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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 […]
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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
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 […]
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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
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One of the documents included in our required reading this week was “Political Program of the Partido Independiente de Color”. This document was published in 1908 as the constitution of the political party Partido Independente de Color. I was incredibly shocked … Continue reading →
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This week, we learned about the people of post-Latin American independence fighting for their rights as citizens. As Dawson mentioned, race and caste were the most prominent categories in the early Latin American republican period, even before women’s rights became a topic of of debate. However, at this point in time, even something as straight …
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This week, we learned about the people of post-Latin American independence fighting for their rights as citizens. As Dawson mentioned, race and caste were the most prominent categories in the early Latin American republican period, even before women’s rights became a topic of of debate. However, at this point in time, even something as straight …
Continue reading “Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republic”
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For this week’s lecture video and readings, a great emphasis is placed on a subjective and fairly contentious topic-that of citizenship and rights. As we have been exploring the nature of Latin America, both as a geographical set of nations and as an abstract idea, we have looked into its conception and maturation, as it… Continue reading Freedom as a Process →
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Official freedom in the Americas is a strange thing. Essentially it was only freedom for a certain group of people and everyone else was left to find other ways to advocate for their own rights. The Caudillos was one of these methods which we learned about last week. However the reading for week six focuses … Continue reading “Week Six”
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