Week 6: Withholding rights for economic prosperity?

The concept of citizenship granting equal rights and freedoms to a national community is the most idealistic approach to politics. However, as with liberalism, this functions best in theory under the guise of colonial rule. And as we all know, in this post-colonial age, this ideal and theoretical grasp on citizenship is far from easy

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. All

Week 3: Identity Anxiety

Like many of the mestizaje from Latin America, I am of mixed ethnicity; I am a Japanese-Irish-Danish-Czech Canadian. Born and raised in Canada, but with ancestors from different countries around the world, I heavily relate to the identity anxiety Latin America people hold within their history, culture and society.  Watching this week’s lecture was very

Week 1: Latin America’s Essence

“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.” Beautiful, succinct and to-the-point; Gabriel Garcia Marquez opens his acclaimed autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale, with a simple sentence, that I believe, captures the essence of Latin America; Storytelling. All of Marquez’s books celebrate