Raimundo (Raymundo) Nina Rodrigues, The Fetishist Animism of the Bahian Blacks (O animismo fetichista dos negros bahianos) (1896-1900), excerpt. (Dawson 91-94)
This excerpt talks about some of the violence that people had to endure under slavery, specifically in a religious context. Any behaviour or lifestyle that was not Christian, white, and European was considered inferior. Rodrigues explains the misconception that the upper class about the people they had brought over from Africa for slavery. They were under the impression that they needed to convert these people to Christianity and that they had no established belief system. However, there were already religious practices that had existed for generations and generations within their communities. In relation to the week’s theme of citizenship and civil rights, there was no freedom of religion in place to protect alternative belief systems. This is an important part of the video project because it adds dimension to the kind of rights that Latin America was lacking in and the consequences of it.
Women’s View of Their Own History (1997) – Bonnie Frederick http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/LASA97/frederick.pdf
This paper was presented at the latin american studies association in 1997. It gives an overview of the women’s rights movement in Argentina from the later years of the 19th century following through to the beginning of the 20th century. It touches on several women in history, including Maria Eugenia Echenique, whose writing has been discussed in class. This provides a broad idea of the experiences women had during this time. The video will benefit from this because it will help to flesh out the women’s rights section of the chapter, which was only given a small and minorly informative portion towards the end.