In our Latin American Revolutions lesson, we were asked the questions “Why is it essential to acknowledge human value regardless of race? How are the events in the Latin American Revolutions evidence of this social imperative?” - The answers to these questions still matter today, with human rights being a ‘hot topic’ on the news quite frequently nowadays. So to study this, in class, we first split up into 3 groups. Within these groups, we determined what races made up what percent of the population in Latin America at the time. Here's the chart:
Then, packets were passed out. One group had a packet on Mexico, another on Gran Colombia, and another on Brazil. My group had the Brazil packet. Our group read this packet, then devised a timeline of the events that happened in Brazil over the course of the Latin American Revolutions. Here’s the timeline itself:
The revolutions in Mexico and Gran Colombia were similar to Brazil’s in some respects, but quite different in others. All 3 revolutions were in the early 1800s, and, in all of them, the lower class was rebelling against the upper class colonialists that held all the power in their country’s government. The Brazilian revolution, however, was the only one that was against Portugal; the other two were against Spain. Also, The Brazilian revolution was the only revolution of the three that didn’t have much violence in it.
In society today, there definitely still are racial issues. Take the problems in Ferguson, for example. I mean, just look at this link. There’s a whole list of racial issues sprinkled in throughout there. It’s definitely still an issue, and should still be talked about today.
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