Independence Narratives, Past and Present (LAST100 wk 4)
Channel: UBC Latin American Studies
Date: 2020-12-11

If the notion of political representation comes to the fore at the point at which Latin America comes to throw off its colonial masters, this is because the spokesmen of the independence movement were those who most keenly felt its lack. For them, being marginalized from the official hierarchies of political power threatened their economic freedoms (regarding taxation and commerce etc.) but also left them helpless in the face of a crisis of governance in which their own position (much higher than slavery) was at risk. For others, rather more basic freedoms were still at stake.

With an analysis of Simón Bolivar's "Letter from Jamaica" and José Martí's "Our America."

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Video by Jon Beasley-Murray for the University of British Columbia course, LAST100, "Introduction to Latin American Studies."  See https://last100.arts.ubc.ca/syllabus/week-4/.