Theories
What is Political Anatomy?
The process of control where knowledge equals power. Discipline is used to control human bodies and express the power the government has over the people.
Indentured servants (immigrating from China) who were paid $4 a month. Their contracts were often manipulated and ignored, forcing them to work longer than expected. They faced increasing physical abuse but not to the same extent as West African Slaves
Coolie
Political leaders (Monarch or Dictator) who exercised control over the military, typically liberal or conservative men with wealth often from plantations and owned land
Caudillo
What is Cardenismo
The administration of Cardenas that advocated for worker's reform and economic nationalism. The administration appealed to poor rural farmers through populism
Eva Duarte
Removal from your culture, family ties and community. Accompanied with "Natal alienation" you're viewed as an outsider by the rest of society- forming no connections or relations with its people.
Social Death
This form of dance originated in Cuba through slaves as a form of agency to challenge the themes of social death. This dance broke through cultural barriers and entranced all races.
Rumba
Ideas from Sarmiento
Civilized: material wealth and luxury goods, city life, educated
Barbaric: Rural living, No access to material wealth, uneducated
Juggernaut vs Jalopy
Alan Knight considered Cardenas more jalopy than juggernaut because although he offered a lot of ideas he was less powerful and less capable of following through with them.
His first-person account of his experiences is the only known autobiography of a nineteenth-century Cuban slave, revealing the high level of paternalism and physical abuse suffered by house slaves within a Cuban sugar plantation system.
Manzano
Paternalism
Increased control and authority over another person or group of people. Often due to the belief that the controlled group does not know right from wrong, similar to how parents would guide a child
House vs Street
For white women the street represented danger and lower class. For black women it represented a way to express social agency and gain economic freedom. The house represented white male paternalism, to protect the purity of white women- and paternalism and social death for Black women as they were observed and watched to ensure their work was complete.
Dominated Argentina as a dictator, waging war on indigenous people for the land. Forced citizens to wear a red ribbon to show alliance through the use of political anatomy. Those who did not were publicly executed and the intellectuals who opposed him were exiled
Juan de Rosas
"Father of the Poor" and the longest running Brazilian President. This worker supported industrial (city) workers but told them they must rely on the government for their happiness and success, thus tying them to social death
Vargas
A former general in the Mexican Revolution and populist president of Mexico between 1934 and 1940. He ran on a platform of working-class land reform and secured strong political support from Mexico’s rural poor—a sharp contrast to other canonical twentieth-century Latin American populists who relied on an urban working class for political support.
Cardenas
Idealizing a figure. They appear larger than life and have unchallenged support from the people.
Populism
in the 19th century Manzano proved that slaves were beginning to have greater social autonomy and agency, despite conditions in the baracoons by doing this
Playing games and going to the taverns to socialize
How did Adolfo O'Gorman try to convince Manuel de Rosas to find and save his daughter who was planning to flee to America while pregnant with the priest Guitierrez.
Appealed to Manual de Rosas using patriarchy by also being a father and by being the patriarch of Buenos Aires.
Was supported by his wife to help the poor and impoverished workers. His propaganda broke through the personal and public lives of the Argentine people.
An intellectual who used his knowledge during his exile to Europe to construct a classification between Civilized and Barbaric people. He openly opposed de Rosas
Sarmiento
in this policy America intervened in Latin America to stop the spread of Communism (individual people do not own land, factories, or machinery. Instead, the government owns these things and distributes them)
The Good Neighbor Policy
Trees were being cut down to provide space for growing slave plantations and to provide wood for sugar mills as Haiti was shunned economically.
Deforestation of Cuba
What two ways did Peron build a connection with children
He sent 4 million toys to Argentina's poorest families and created the Children's park- an amusment park compared to Disney world
School of the Americas
United States Army founded a school in the Panama Canal which trained Latin American military personnel to use weapons and provided instruction on nation building earning them the name “School of the Dictators” and “School of the Assassins”. The School of the Americas has been blamed for human rights violations committed by former students and accusations towards the school of teaching techniques of repression to be used toward civilians.