- According to author Catherine Walsh, what is Abya Yala? Why is this term relevant to the “politics of naming” in Latin America? (Suggested word count: around 110 words)
Answer is in “1A-Walsh+Mignolo-on-decoloniality-concepts-analytics-praxis-2”.pdf - Define the meaning of “coloniality of power” according to Anibal Quijano's theory and Catherine Walsh’s writing. (Suggested word count: around 110 words)
Answer is in “1A-Walsh+Mignolo-on-decoloniality-concepts-analytics-praxis-2”.pdf - According to Manuela Cunha in "Image of the Indians of Brazil,” what ways were indigenous people described as “lacking” in early settler narratives? As discussed in module 1, elaborate on at least one consequence indigenous people faced due to this early mode of “othering.” (Suggested word count: around 110 words)
Answer is in Lecture “1B-Colonization and Otherness”.pdf and “1B_CarneiroCunha_ImagesofIndians”.pdf - In your own words, according to Stuart Hall what is stereotyping? (Suggested word count: 50-70 words)
Hall quote of stereotype is in Lecure “1B-Colonization and Otherness”.pdf (pge. 38). Please look through the lecture to get more idea about stereotype and write it with your own words. - Provide an adequate definition of Casta paintings. How did these paintings serve as early examples of racializing the “Other” in colonial Mexico? (Suggested word count: around 110 words)
Answer is in Lecture “1B-Colonization and Otherness”.pdf and “1B_Cabrera_LocatingRace”.pdf - Write down artist’s name, title, and date of one artwork that serves as example of Latin American Indigenismo/Indigenism. In a few sentences, explain why this artwork is an adequate example. Points will be taken off if your answer does not provide the artwork’s full information and/or if you choose an example discussed outside of this class. (Suggested word count: 50-70 words) Use “Oswaldo Guayasamin (Ecuadorian), La Procesion (The procession), 1942” in Lecture “2A-Early Modernism”.pdf and “2A_Flores_Art_Revolution_and_Indigenous_Subjects”.pdf
- Mexican Muralism was a didactic artistic movement associated with the aesthetics of Social Realism that emerged after the Mexican Revolution (1910-20) to educate the masses and recount the history of the revolution. Murals were used to assert a specific Mexican national identity post-revolution. According to the intellectuals and artists who were responsible for shaping Mexican Muralism, what was the role of mestizaje in modern Mexico? In your answer, cite one artwork discussed in this course and explain why this piece is an example of the “Cosmic Race” theory. (Suggested word count: 120-180 words)
Use “Diego Rivera, The Triumph of the Revolution, 1926 in lecture “2A-Early Modernism”.pdf and “2A_Flores_Art_Revolution_and_Indigenous_Subjects”.pdf - What was the School of the South? What was its founder’s main goal?
(Suggested word count: 50-70 words)
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