Abby

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Introduction

Beginning in 1492, conquistadors from the Iberian peninsula arrived in Latin America. They encountered the indigenous peoples who had been living on the land for centuries and deemed them barbaric […]
Abby wrote a new post on the site Modern Latin America 2020 5 years ago

What is the symbolism of Mate and how is it mentioned throughout the book?

Mate is a traditional Argentine drink. It is a tea-like beverage and sees its first mention on the third page of the book. It […]
Abby wrote a new post on the site Modern Latin America 2020 5 years ago

What role do women play in
the revolution? How does their role reflect the Spanish ideas of honor that we
learned about in the colonial era?

In The Underdogs,
the role of women is primarily a domestic one. […]
Abby commented on the post, Student Research Idea: The Life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, on the site Modern Latin America 2020 5 years ago

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is an extremely influential person when discussing colonial Mexico as well as the role religion played in colonization. We talked a lot about her in Colonial Latin America last semester […]
Abby commented on the post, Narrowed Research Post: Gender and Argentina's Dirty War, on the site Modern Latin America 2020 5 years ago

This seems like a really interesting topic to explore, I think I have heard of this movement before but I don’t know much about it. It could be interesting to look at social media to see how the movement is b […]
Abby commented on the post, Narrowed Research Focus: Chile's Protests, on the site Modern Latin America 2020 5 years ago

This is really interesting! I feel like I don’t know much about the protests that are going on in Chile right now so I look forward to reading about them. I think it would be helpful to look at media coverage b […]
Abby wrote a new post on the site Modern Latin America 2020 5 years ago

For my research project, I want to look at the racial and social hierarchies or the casta system created by the Spanish in Latin America and the long term affects it had on Latin American countries. Racial […]
Abby wrote a new post on the site Modern Latin America 2020 5 years ago

For my research , I am interested in looking at the “caste system” and how that has impacted the political structures throughout history, even reaching into recent times. This system was originally put in place by […]
Abby wrote a new post on the site Modern Latin America 2020 5 years ago

Over the past few days, 47 people have died, 4 are missing and 18,000 people have been forced to flee from their homes because of severe weather. In the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, landslides […]
Abby wrote a new post on the site Modern Latin America 2020 5 years ago

Class Notes 1/24/2020

A one or two paragraph summary of the day’s activities. What historical questions did we discuss in class? How did the assigned readings for that day hold together?

We began cla […]
Abby wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago

What kind of rhetoric was used by those who opposed the slave rebellion and how do you think it effected the perception of the revolution?

The rhetoric surrounding the revolution on the opposing side is very […]
Abby commented on the post, Revised Research, on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago

I think comparing the views of both parties is very important when researching topics in Latin America since there is often a gap in sources from the indigenous peoples. Comparing rituals and events would also be […]
Abby commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago

This is an awesome research idea and seems like it will be fun to research! I would do some background work into what music was like before and after colonialism. Looking at specific instruments could also be […]
Abby commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago

I really like this research topic and I think it has important long term effects in modern day Hispanola. I spent a week in high school at a school in the Dominican Republic and one of the things they mentioned to […]
Abby wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago

After looking at sources and briefly discussing my project with Professor Holt, I have decided that I would like to focus on religious women in the Andes. I have found many sources that detail life in convents in […]
Abby wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago

The class discussion for 9/18 was focused on early colonial perspectives as the two groups we have been studying up to this point, the Iberians and the indigenous peoples of Latin America had recently met. The […]
Abby wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years ago

One area of research I am interested in is how colonization impacted gender roles in Latin America, specifically in the Andes. In our book we read that before colonization women and men in the Andes had separate […]
Abby wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years ago

Throughout my academic career I have spent very little time learning about Latin America which was my main motivation for taking this class. I vaguely remember reading about the conquistadors in elementary school […]
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