SPA 147 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Latin American Wars Of Independence, American Imperialism, Pseudoscience
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Other: study abroad opportunity: learn more about the quarter abroad madrid program on tuesday, oct 16 at 12:00 in the international center. The origins of these myths and distortions were: Beginning of a human rights movement in the americas (las casas) Conflicts between nation states (england and spain, the us and mexico) Confusing an argument about human rights with a denunciation of spain. Confusing the colonized peoples of the americans with the colonizing spanish. Ideas about race, environment and the character of spanish speaking people. A desire to understand the us as the opposite of spain: we haven"t talked about one of the major problems with categorizing spanish-speaking people as race hispanics are not all. The racially motivated conflicts between english-speaking and spanish-speaking the same color. Racist ideologies were incoherent pseudo-science that could be used to justify anything. Kagan is important because he explains that anglo-americans" positive self-image depended on a negative image of spain.
