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Introduction to Latin America

Introduction to Latin America

Alec Dawson on “Latin America” (podcast)

Posted in Podcasts, Week 1, Week 1 Podcasts | Tagged with Cuba, history, Music, popular culture, representation, stereotypes

Week 9 – Commerce, Coercion, and America’s Empire

My favourite quote in this week’s readings is from “From the Noble Savage to the Third World.” Dorfmann and Mattelart write: “There are two forms of killing: by machine guns and saccharine.” The United States was not only a military … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with bananas, Culture, Disney, media, stereotypes, United States

Week Three

When I saw the Casta paintings I initially found them to be quite offensive and racist, as their only purpose…

Posted in Blogs, Week 3 | Tagged with afro-latina, casta, colonial experience, colorism, crisis of representation, identity, latinx, otherness, racism, representations, stereotypes

Week 1: Where is Latin America?

After reading Chapter 1 of Alex Dawson’s Latin America since Independence, he talks a lot about bias and stereotypes about Latin America. The discussion question I came up with for this section was: What are our own bias and assumptions about Latin America, in regards to a) gender? b) politics? c) culture? d) religion? It […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with America, bias, latin, stereotypes

Week Nine

This week’s homework focuses on the influence that the United States had, both positively and negatively, on Latin America prior to 1959. Throughout the readings, I found many intersecting sections, one being the core periphery relationship between the United States and several countries within Central America and the Caribbean. Similar to cases in the past, […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with Banana, Carmen Miranda, Dawson, latin america, monopoly, plantations, relations, stereotypes, UFCO, weeknine

Week Nine

This week’s homework focuses on the influence that the United States had, both positively and negatively, on Latin America prior to 1959. Throughout the readings, I found many intersecting sections, one being the core periphery relationship between the United States and several countries within Central America and the Caribbean. Similar to cases in the past, […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with Banana, Carmen Miranda, Dawson, latin america, monopoly, plantations, relations, stereotypes, UFCO, weeknine

Introduction to Latin America

Introduction to Latin America

Alec Dawson on “Latin America” (video)

Posted in Videos, Week 1 Videos | Tagged with Carmen Miranda, Chávez, exoticism, gender, history, representation, stereotypes, tourism

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