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Week4: Independence Narrative, Past and Present

This week’s lecture video offered ideas and viewpoints I couldn’t see by reading the text on my own and found it very enlightening.  Also, Mr.Alexander Dawson’s text gave me a better understanding of the reason behind our inability to determine when Latin America came to exist or came to be its own. In this week’s […]

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Video Project : Research Source no.1

Source reference: Bethell, L. (Ed.). (1993). Argentina since Independence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511609480 Our Video Project will be focusing on Week 4: Independence Narrative, Past and Present. One of the primary sources we will use focuses on the Independence of Argentina from colonial rule. The source is called ‘Argentina since Independence’ and was written byContinue reading “Video Project : Research Source no.1”

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Week 4: Generalization Turned Diversification

During the colonial age of Latin America, powers of different origins set governing rule over a people that did not have a say in what they wanted for or from those in power. These colonizers imposed new government structures and societal forms that created social unrest amongst the populations marginalized by the colonized states. AllContinue reading “Week 4: Generalization Turned Diversification”

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Week 4: Authentic vs. Aesthetic Representation

In order to successfully understand the Independence of the Countries within Latin America it is first important to understand the history of Latin America and why it needed to reclaim independence in the first place. It was interesting to be able to read three different people’s accounts from three different periods in time which depictedContinue reading “Week 4: Authentic vs. Aesthetic Representation”

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Week 4: Independence Narratives, Past and Present

To learn that Haiti was one of the first countries to win their independence was a surprise to me. If I was ever asked which countries in Latin America I would have thought won their independence first, I would have responded with countries like Chile, Peru or maybe even Argentina. I remember being part of …

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