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Week 13: Towards an Uncertain Future
For this week’s blog “Towards an Uncertain Future”, instead of writing about and analyzing the readings from Alexander Dawson’s texts, I’m choosing to focus on a conversation with Max Cameron, a Political Science professor at UBC, from a clip called The Left Turns. In this video, Cameron touches base on many issues (his examples particularly…
Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power
This week our class is covering the topic “Speaking Truth to Power”. Alexander Dawson makes note of several important events, topics, people, and groups, but for this week’s post, I would like to focus on one group in particular who I am always drawn to every time they are brought up in conversation or in…
“Casta Painting and the Characterization of Colonial Mexican Identities” by Natalia Caldas
The second source I chose to write about for this week’s writing assignment is “Casta Painting and the Characterization of Colonial Mexican Identities” by Natalia Caldas of the University of Western Ontario. In the second chapter, which is the one I will be mainly focusing on, Caldas’ focus is mainly on the español character in…
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