1.1 Defining Mestizaje and the Nature of History
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
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IN THIS VIDEO, we establish our methodology and the goals for UNSETTLING JOURNEYS, an ongoing series exploring the history of Mexican, Latin American and Latinx cultures through art. We define the importance of deconstructing historical silences (after Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s methodology) and establish the importance of "historiography" in understanding the complexities of our identities as Latinoamerican@s, Mexican@s, and Latinx peoples.
Stay tuned until the end to watch the creators talk about the series and listen as they define some key terms and ideas essential to understanding our future video essays.
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Episode 1: Introduction, Defining Mestizaje, and the Nature of History
Season 1: Mestizaje Contextualized: Encounters in the Early Modern Period
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ABOUT THIS CHANNEL: The arts have played a central role in the solidification of our identities by anchoring our feelings to shifting colonies, empires, and nations. UNSETTLING JOURNEYS is dedicated to uncovering the histories behind Mexican, Latin American, and Latinx identities by examining the arts (paintings, prints, architecture, visual and material cultures) created before the invasion of Tenochtitlán, during the colonial period, around the waves of Latin American Independence from Europe, and into our contemporary world.
By dissecting everything from pyramids to movies, UNSETTLING JOURNEYS breaks down the complicated stories of our past. With fun and critical contextualization, we’ll untangle the messy history of art in the Americas, and the role it plays in our imaginations. Subscribe and join our journey to disrupt history, dismantle its myths, and deconstruct Latinx identities.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Secondary Sources:
Hulme, Peter. 1992. Colonial encounters: Europe and the native Caribbean, 1492-1797. London: Routledge.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 1995. The Silences of the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press.
Websites:
Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, s.v. “mestizo,” accessed June 6, 2020, www.merriam-we....
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MUSIC
INTRO
Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.fi...
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Traveler by Alexander Nakarada
Link: filmmusic.io/s...
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Our people are a mix of 2 ancient races and civilisations that became one
I'm excited for the future videos!
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Ahhhh! This is amazing! Pues, I'll be sure to send y'all some questions.
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Hi Vivi! Thank you so much for the support. It's comments like yours filled with enthusiasm that keep us making these videos and sharing our research. Keep commenting and watching, because we have lots of content planned!!
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I'm tired of Frida Kahlo AND las catrinas fro Dia de los Muertos. I love these videos. Thank you for making them.
Samesies, that's why we are doing this. Thank you for engaging with our content.
Why las catrinas?
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Gracias!! We are so happy you love it! Saludos a la familia.
Fantastic!!!! Thank you for your excellent, engaging and great information!!!!
So happy to find this! I love it
I would love to hear more of your content. Are you planning on doing some of your work in Spanish. I am a Spanish teacher and this will be a great resource . Thanks.
Hi Sandra. Yeah, we're planning on publishing our content in Spanish. We want to caption the videos, however, for now, we're providing Spanish translations on the descriptions. Follow the link to the PDF, and you'll find the translated texts and our bibliography!
I was wondering who is singing at 0:42?
I'm a Filipino and I think the concept of mestizaje is important for our cultural identity too which has become quite amorphous in today's sociopolitical climate
But Filipinos aren’t American Indians.
Yes but also we're situated geographically and historically at a crossroads of many different cultures and the arrival of Spain totally redirected our cultural development in comparison to our neighbors. The lingua franca changed 3 times, from some form of Bahasa prior to Spain, to Spanish during the 300 years of colonization, to English during the 50 or so years during American colonization, and finally to a combination of Tagalog and English today. And that's just language, there's also religion, customs, beliefs, social structures. I can say a lot about this, and perhaps mestizaje may not be the correct term for it, but certainly it is hard to deny that our culture is a bit of an aberration compared to our neighbors.
The native Americans in Mexico never saw themselves as one people that’s why when the Spanish conquistadors arrived the other indigenous tribes of Mexico sided with them to conquer the Aztecs
Yes! That's totally right. Take a look at our latest visual voyage, Inventing the Indio to see how that process took place, ultimately eroding Indigenous diversity throughout the continents.
ua-cam.com/video/g_gT6VubCAM/v-deo.html
Yeah truth is more times then not Mestizos were just as Anti Indigenous as there White And Middle Eastern counterparts note most Middle Easterners blended in with the Europeans particularly Iberians and took full advantage of the racial casta system and much of this is practiced still in many parts of Latin America
Well said
Well when the majority of the world hates the dark skinned ethnicity, then of course many nations have embraced the Eurocentric features. It’s so sad, but unless YOU have experienced that level of shame and prejudice, then one can speak on it.