The first movie that the class watched was The Last Supper. The movie showed slaves, masters, a priest, overseers, and enforcers in Cuba. It was a revelation because it showed insight on how the slaves were mistreated and disrespected. Gender, age, and martial status determined one’s role on a plantation. The second movie that the class viewed is based on a true story called Camila. Camila was a great movie because it had a powerful message about the social power in Argentina in the 1800s. This movie showed how the priests and the Governor had a lot of power over everyone. Latin America had power relations through marriage, patriarchy, male and female jobs, and movies the class viewed. Power relations affected Latin Americans lives because …show more content…
it depended on the social class and marital status. The movie “The Last Supper” and mistreatment go hand and hand.
The female slaves worked in the house, while the males worked outside. They were viewed differently because of their skin tone color. The Count had a high position in power because he was white and part of the church. The Count in The Last Supper used the Bible to explain to the slaves how they should live. The Count used quotes from the Bible that were about obeying and loyalty to the slaves at the table. It was symbolic because the movie showed twelve slaves eating at the table with the Count. The Count was one of the authority figures the men had to listened to. Practice and preachments ingrained all social relations consisted in an exchange of protection for loyalty. The nineteenth century was a formative era in the development of new theories of race, most of which were extensions and variations on pre-existing notions and thus carried with them prejudices and values used to explain difference since the beginning of time. (Meade, …show more content…
99). The movie Camila showed how the patriarchy always ruled the family. Children and wives had to willingly listen to the fathers, because he oversaw the family. The Catholic Church had power over the people, but not all the time. In the movie, the priests wrote a letter begging Rosas (the Governor of Buenos Aires) to change his mind about the execution of a pregnant woman named Camila. The priests tried to save her life, but to no avail. Rosas did not care what her status was and at the end of the movie he forced his men to shoot her by pointing his gun at them. This shows Rosas’ social power over people. The elite, such as Rosas, relied on the threat of punishment to deal with the poor. Some of the powerful were not able to exercise their power without reservation because there was always a challenge between the groups. The new ruling elite took for granted their privileged status, championing individualism and the benefits of unfettered trade, separation of Church and state, an end to the traditional protection of Indian lands, and the abolition of slavery (Meade, 99). The General provided Camila and her husband (Ladislao) a chance to escape with two horses and plenty of time. This action shows that friendship can overstep the power of an authority figure. However, they did not take up the offer because they did not want to run. The next morning the General arrived at the house with his men. It was visible that he felt bad for them because they got caught. Camila’s father was the exact opposite to the General. He wanted Camila and Ladislao to be executed for their wrong doings. Camila’s family was appalled and her mother was furious because the father’s demands. Sadly, the family could not help the newlyweds. Power relations affected Latin American lives because the rich used the poor for manual labor or as servants. “In the nineteenth century, Spanish America in particular was the staging ground for the emergence if a decidedly separatist and revolutionary agenda” (Meade, 49). The soil of the New World was a cultural expression that legitimized the most powerful economic and political breach the divided Europe and Latin America. According to Argentine historian Carlos Mayo, remote nineteenth-century estancias on the pampas had stocks of imported silver and linens from Europe, perfumes and soaps, furniture and household accessories, all which had long been assumed to be present in wealthy homes in capital cities-but not on distant estates located inland (Meade, 87).
By 1911 the U.S. had controlling interests in Mexico’s copper, gold, lead, and tin mining. Mexico’s oil industry was the third largest in the world, it was sold to the North American Rockefeller consortium. “Men and women left the land to take up urban jobs as factory laborers, where women earned a fraction of the salary paid to men” (Meade, 163). Wealthy landowners in Mexico ruled entire provinces through their personal armies, enforcing their own laws, and collecting taxes from rural peasants who were tied to the land. Most workers on plantations or estates did not leave their position in society their entire lives. “They never saw a government official, a city, a church outside the chapel on the estate, never went to school or learned the basic rights of citizenship” (Meade,
89). There was a section in the second reading about marriages and challenges to patriarchy. A woman named Teresa Perasa refused to live with her husband. “She was picked up by the police as she was fleeing to the city of Montevideo, where she hoped to be out of the reach of the authorizes” (Szuchman, 148). In Camila, there is a lack of balance with the father and the children. The actions from Camila harms her family’s connection with the society. The women were not directly employed by the hacienda and often went unpaid. Fully employed, married men at the hardest tasks, such as cutting, rasping, and weeding. “Single men weeded and transported the refuse from the rasping. Boys hung the fibers to dry in the sun” (Wasserman, 191). Married men earned the highest wages, between 3.5 and 6.5 pesos per week. Women took the intensive, lowest-paying jobs, spending twelve hours a day in a room hunched over a table in their wooden clogs. The caudillos ruled as patriarchs, making all decisions, dispensing “justice.” And determining what was produced, when, and by whom. Most maintained city homes, where their wives and families lived for a part of the year and to which they made occasional trips (Meade, 88). Caudillo patriarchs took advantage of young women by making them cook, clean, or serve in whatever ways they might desire on their estates. Caudillo were military-landowners who possessed political power and used it in a form considered authoritarian. The women were kept alone on the countryside far away from the restraining eye of the Church. “If only propertied men were deemed qualified for citizenship, then liberalism served to exclude women for many of the same reasons that excluded the majority of men” (Meade, 100). Women lacked autonomy and were tied to the land, in debt, enslaved or in some way not free. It was impossible to demarcate racial boundaries apart from gender, it was such an important feature of caudillismo. “Losses in the legal challenges to parental authority, however, became more difficult to predict” (Szuchman, 148). Separations of husbands from wives were not unusual, the virtual imprisonment of the wife while her husband remained free to vary on with is life. “Husbands in the region of the Rio de la Plata could not expect the authorities to support them in all decisions regarding martial life” (Szuchman, 149). The movies that were viewed in class gave an insight into the daily lives of slaves and the rich. The first movie was very emotional because slaves were abused and had to endure worse jobs than rich people. The second movie was hard to watch because it was based on a real- life love story from a long time ago. Everyone had a role on the plantations, but it depended on their gender, age, and marital status. Patriarchy was a huge problem that was focused on in Camila. The movies showed the different personalities each ruler had. Power is operated through force between groups such as the rich and poor. The movies and readings explain how people lived, worked, and how they were viewed in societies’ eyes.
From Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s piece Racial Formation in the United States, they argue that “race” starts with a look at historical “racial formations” that is the “sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed” (21). This occurs through racial projects that link the representation and social structure of racial dynamics through ideology. This means the creation and reproduction of structures of domination based on essentialist categories of race, which is racism. Two groups to examine from the nineteenth century of the United States for the process of “racial formation” would be the Irish and the Chinese.
First, I will examine Omi and Winant’s approach. They made a clear distinction between ethnicity and race and only discussed how races are formed. They also define race as a constantly being transformed by political struggle and it is a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by
Mexican Lives is a rare piece of literature that accounts for the human struggle of an underdeveloped nation, which is kept impoverished in order to create wealth for that of another nation, the United States. The reader is shown that the act of globalization and inclusion in the world’s economies, more directly the United States, is not always beneficial to all parties involved. The data and interviews, which Hellman has put forth for her readers, contain some aspect of negativity that has impacted their lives by their nation’s choice to intertwine their economy with that of the United States. Therefore it can only be concluded that the entering into world markets, that of Mexico into the United States, does not always bring on positive outcomes. Thus, one sees that Mexico has become this wasteland of economic excrement; as a result it has become inherently reliant on the United States.
Issues of slavery in the and white supremacy in the United States brought about the desire for “racial purity.” The belief was that the highest ethnic achievement was the claiming of Anglo-Saxon origin. Feelings of nativism and nationalism gave way to the rise and fall of scientific whiteness and contributed heavily to the motivation as to why people studied their family trees.
Kurian, George Thomas, ed. "Mexico: Economy." World Geography and Culture Online. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 13 May 2014. .
An early example of this was the creation of the republic of Indians. When the indigenousness people of America became known as Indians. At the start of this the Indian nobility capitalizes on their power and beings to assert influence on the poor Indians similar to the way the Spanish nobles controlled the Spanish peasants. It realigns wealth and title into the Native Americans’ society. The Native elites used their power and positioning to get out of labor systems like the Mita because they could use their influence to get lower class Native to take their place. The legal system enabled further subdivisions of hierarchies within racial and ethnic hierarchies existed class hierarchies. This allowed the wealthy natives to subjugate fellow Natives just as the Spanish subjugate fellow Spaniards. We can see they Ayllu breaking down because of internal conflict between the Native nobles and the regular natives. We can also see this among Spanish elites and commoners. The elites were granted access to certain positions such as commerce and high-ranking government positions. The poor Spanish and creoles had limited access to education specifically the women. The groups with the most rights were the Spaniards and the Creoles but among these two there were big differences. The Creoles could not hold the highest positions in the
As mentioned previously war time creates hardships and sometimes those hardships are difficult to recover from. The outcome of the Mexican Revolution included millions of peasants being killed. Marentes describes peasants as hard-working, highly skilled agricultural labors. With the loss of so many peasants the harvest became scarce and many were lacking work. The Mexican government was unable to replenish resources and improve the way of life in Mexico causing ...
Race and ethnicity is a main factor in the way we identify others and ourselves. The real question here is does race/ethnicity still matter in the U.S.? For some groups race is not a factor that affects them greatly and for others it is a constant occurrence in their mind. But how do people of mix race reacts to this concept, do they feel greatly affected by their race? This is the question we will answer throughout the paper. I will first examine the battle of interracial relationship throughout history and explain how the history greatly explains the importance of being multiracial today. This includes the backlash and cruelty towards interracial couple and their multiracial children. Being part of a multiracial group still contains its impact in today’s society; therefore race still remaining to matter to this group in the U.S. People who place themselves in this category are constantly conflicted with more than one cultural backgrounds and often have difficulty to be accepted.
...s not merely identified by color. By 1800 it is only an issue or race and only an issue of color" (Thomas Davis). http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1i3048.html)
Race has been one of the most outstanding situations in the United States all the way from the 1500s up until now. The concept of race has been socially constructed in a way that is broad and difficult to understand. Social construction can be defined as the set of rules are determined by society’s urges and trends. The rules created by society play a huge role in racialization, as the U.S. creates laws to separate the English or whites from the nonwhites. Europeans, Indigenous People, and Africans were all racialized and victimized due to various reasons. Both the Europeans and Indigenous People were treated differently than African American slaves since they had slightly more freedom and rights, but in many ways they are also treated the same. The social construction of race between the Europeans, Indigenous People, and Africans led to the establishment of how one group is different from the other.
Having discussed the Mexican Revolution in brief, it is appropriate to turn to the first actor in the revolutionary drama: the Mexican worker. The process of rapid economic development under Porfirio Diaz beginning in the 1890s had created the country’s first significant industrial working class. Alicia Hernandez Chavez notes that railroad workers, for example, numbered in the tens of thousands by 1910, whereas they had not existed before the creation and expansion of the industry (MBH 173). The arrival of the streetcar, now found in a number of major Mexican cities, created another skilled working-class occupation that did not exist before. In the two decades before the outbreak of the revolution, a modern textile sector also emerged. It reached six hundred and six thousand workers, many concentrated in large factories producing cloth for domestic consumption (MBH 173). Mining, a boom-and-bust industry that dated from the colonial period, recovered and expanded considerably thanks to the railroads. In 1910, miners numbered almost a hundred thousand in Mexico (MBH 173). They lived in mining camps and towns found largely in the Mexican north. More generally, various mass consumer goods were increasingly shifting to small-scale factory production, including items like soap, candles, beer, furniture, soft drinks, cigarettes, meat, and baked goods.
The New Testament gives us direction to praise and worship in our churches. I believe the Lord’s Supper is one of the most important aspect of our worship services. Jesus described this as a remembrance meal and the instructions that He gave to us was a centerpoint in the first century worship assemblies. In this essay I would like to do an exegesis of 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 and how our modern day church should follow it.
In today’s society, it is acknowledgeable to assert that the concepts of race and ethnicity have changed enormously across different countries, cultures, eras, and customs. Even more, they have become less connected and tied with ancestral and familial ties but rather more concerned with superficial physical characteristics. Moreover, a great deal can be discussed the relationship between ethnicity and race. Both race and ethnicity are useful and counterproductive in their ways. To begin, the concept of race is, and its ideas are vital to society because it allows those contemporary nationalist movements which include, racist actions; to become more familiar to members of society. Secondly, it has helped to shape and redefine the meaning of
Debates over the preservation or abolition of the slave trade were fundamental in establishing discussions on the nature of race. The majority of modern scholars agree that “race” is a
The Last Supper is one of the greatest work of art created by Italian inventor and innovator Leonardo de Vinci. The famous piece of work is located in Milan Italy on the wall of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Last Supper is proof of de Vinci astonishing artistic talent and vision. Da Vinci uses both, along with his perception of the Holy Scriptures, and gives reality to the last moments before Jesus’ betrayal.