Name: Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History #31
Uploaded: 2013-05-02T09:23:02.000Z
Duration: 13 min 43 s
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and today things are going to get a little bit confusing,

because we’re going to talk about revolution and independence

and 4. As we’ve seen in the past, sometimes

not that revolutionary. [why a solid marketing dept. is key]

Witness, for instance, the New England Revolution,

who instead of, like, trying to form new and better governments

are always just kicking balls around like all the other soccer [futbol] teams.

Latin American society was characterized by three institutions

that exercised control over the population.

the job of the colonies was to produce revenue

in the form of a 20% tax on everything that was called “the royal fifth.”

So government administration was pervasive and relatively efficient—

because it had to be in order to collect its royal fifth.

– the church bells tolled out the hours

and they mandated a seven day work week so that people

[so HobbyLobby store hours aren't super inconvenient, they're just old skool?]

And finally, there was patriarchy. [yeuup, there's a shocker]

In Latin America, like much of the world,

husbands had complete control over their wives and any

extra-or-pre-marital skoodilypooping was severely punished.

when it was the women doing the illicit skoodilypooping.

Men could basically get up to whatever. [RIP Helen Gurley Brown. much love]

because illegitimate children could inherit their father’s property,

but it was constructed to be about, you know, purity.

To get a sense of how patriarchy shaped Latin American lives,

take a gander at Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz,

A child prodigy who spoke five languages by the age of 16,

de la Cruz wanted to disguise herself as a boy so she could attend University,

[plot of 80's flick Just One of the Guys]

she studied math and natural science, [Girls do Get Curves, Danica McKellar!]

and for being one of the leading minds of the 17th century,

and eventually forced to abandon her work

That’s a shame because she had a great mind,

“Aristotle would have written more if he had done any cooking.”

Latin America led the world in transculturation or Cultural Blending.

A new and distinct Latin American culture emerged mixing

1. Whites from Spain called Peninsulares,

2. Whites born in the Americas called creoles,

This blending of cultures may be most obvious

when looking at Native American and African influences upon Christianity.

The Virgin of Guadalupe, for instance, was still called Tonantzin,

the indigenous earth goddess, by Indians,

and the profusion of blood in Mexican iconography

recalls the Aztec use of blood in ritual.

But transculturation pervaded Latin American life,

Somewhat related: Latin America had a great deal of racial diversity and

white, black, mestizo –a mix of white and American Indian-

We try not to use that word anymore because it’s offensive,

Latin America had a huge diversity of mixed race people,

and there were constant attempts to classify them

You can see some of these in so called casta paintings,

which attempted to establish in a very weird and Enlightenment-y way

But of course that’s not how race works, as evidenced by the fact that

successful people of lower racial castes could become “legally white”

by being granted gracias al sacar. [pretty jacked up, white? right, I mean..]

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