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importance of a single story

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  • comes from Western Literature
  • America has many stories due to power and money
  • when we reject single stories, we can learn to accept other cultures
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Colonial Institutions Catholic Church

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type of institute of consecrated life in the catholic church, members take religious vows and lead life in community with members

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encomienda system

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a labor system in American colonies. it was a labor system that gave instruction in Christian faith

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repartimiento system

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similar to slavery but the workers were not owned. certain colonist recruited indigenous people for forced labor

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social hierarchy colonial institution

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from most to least
-Europeans
-Creoles
-Castas: Mulattos and Mestizos
-Free Blacks
-Domestic Slaves
-Plantation/Indigenous slaves

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haciendas

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a large landed estate, one of the traditional institutions of rural life.

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plantation economy

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an economy based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few commodity crops, grown on large farms worked by laborers or slaves.

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social hierarchy pyramid

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peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, domestic slaves, platian slaves, indiegous

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social hierarchy pyramid

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peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, domestic slaves, Plantan slaves, Indigenous

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slavery

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Along with Cuba, Brazil, and Puerto Rico, the United States was among the last nations in the Americas to abolish slavery.

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casta system

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a class structure that is determined by birth.

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mesitzo

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European and Indigenous

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Mulatto

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European and African

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haciendas

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lands and buildings and labor attached to the local and centralized economic system

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Importance of “Latinoamerica” by Calle 13

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contains cultural symbolism relating to Latin American identity: missing persons, Maradona against England, Operation Condor, coca, Love in the Times of Cholera by renowned Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, etc.

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independence movement

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The immediate trigger of the conflict was Napoleon’s invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in 1807 and 1808, roots also lay in the growing discontent of creole elites

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external factors for the latin independence

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Napoleon invasion of Spain and Portugal
American Revolution, French Revolution Haitian Revolution Internal: Creoles lack of Political power

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internal factors for the latin independence

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Creoles lack of Political power Slave system Taxation from European powers Control of the Catholic Church

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father hidalgo

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-declared war against spain and led revolt was executed before any true accomplishments could be achieved

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simon bolivar

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s the greatest leader of South American independence. he led a massive revolt against Spanish colonial rule in South America, beginning in 1810.

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where did Simon bolivar start revolts

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New Granada, now Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, Peru, (now Bolivia).

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father hildgo revolt

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revolt started in mexico

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simon bolivar legacy

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Venezuela,

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African diaspora

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Africans and their descendants to various parts of the world during the modern and pre-modern periods.​

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Importance of Henry Luis Gates JR “Black in LA” vide

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-over 100 categories to describe color and race
American literary critic and scholar who is known for his pioneering theories of African literatures and African American literature.

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Carnival

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The most colorful feast day in Brazil, only day a year slaves could mock the system that oppresses them.

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syncretism

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the merging of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought

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religon- Santería, Voodoo, Candomblé

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are neo-African religions practiced in Cuba and Brazil, respectively. Both are basically New World versions of the religious beliefs of the Yoruba people of West Africa,

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Transculturation Theory/

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process of cultural transformation marked by the influx of new culture elements and the loss or alteration of existing ones

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The Aponte Revolt of 1812

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In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba,

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who was Aponte

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-was a visionary (creative)
-free black (had freedom)
-was a sculptor (has stable income)
-came from a line of militia

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Aponte’s role in the conspiracy

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Aponte had a book of drawings (drawings are universal for all including illiterate slaves) and contained maps of military grounds, was suspected and executed for slave revolts.

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Martí –“Our America”

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-BIG IDEA: progression INWARD, not reliant on foreign import
-“plantain” reference to show economic potential within the country

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armiento –“Civilization and Barbarism”

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“wears a European suit” in the city, “wears an American suit” upon leaving
-thinks the “gaucho” cannot be accommodated in modern society

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Marti nationality

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CUBAN

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Sarmiento nationality

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ARGENTINIAN

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Guantanamera PETE SEEGER

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Guantanamo Bay (military base in Cuba owned by US)

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U.S. Imperialism

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Imperialism is the idea of expanding one’s territory by taking over another country.

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Monroe Doctrine

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t the United States will not permit any European nation to extend its holdings or use armed force on the two American continents.

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Manifest Destiny

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the 19th-century belief that it was the divine mission of the United States to expand westward across North America.

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Mass communication (Yellow journalism)

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sensationalistic or biased stories that newspapers present as objective truth.

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Goofy the Gaucho

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-stereotypical poncho
-eating asada (argentinian cuisine)
-clumsy

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Mexican American war

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marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil.

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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ended the war between the United States and Mexico

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Spanish-American war

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conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America

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Treaty of Paris

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nded the American Revolution

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Platt Amendment

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the Platt Amendment was a treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba’s independence from foreign intervention

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Cuban Republic 1902

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It encompasses the period after Cuba’s independence from the Spanish Empire and end of its first U.S. military occupation in 1902.

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mulatto

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European and african

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mestizo

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European and indigenous

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