In class, the teacher assigns the students essential questions to answer throughout each lesson. The essential questions for this unit were, "Why is it essential to acknowledge human value regardless of race? How are the events in the Latin American Revolutions evidence of this social imperative?" An individual's value should be acknowledged no matter what race they are. Everyone is the same inside and out; their race should not be a barrier to the way they are suppose to be treated. Events that occurred throughout the revolutions in Latin America were a social impact on race. For a better understanding on the impact of race in the Latin American revolutions, the class read a document that provided information on the populations that made up Latin America.
This pie chart shows the population of what made up Latin America
These are descriptions of what each race was
The class also made observations on a painting called Casta Art which trace the convoluted racial mixing of the people in Mestizaje which is a process of race mixing. Below presents a painting of the Casta Art.
The class then divided into three groups, each group being assigned 1 of the 3 locations that a Latin American revolution took place. The options were Brazil, Mexico, and Gran Colombia. After groups picked their country, their task was to create a timeline based on the information that was provided in the documents they read from. Later, the class broke into smaller groups with each group having at least two representatives of their country and shared their timelines in the smaller group.
Below is the timeline of Mexico
In the smaller groups, after representatives shared thier timelines, group members were to find similarities and differences between their revolutions. Some similarities that groups discovered was that all the revolutions resulted in the country gaining independence. Also, all the countries rebelled against European rulers. The differences were that each revolt took place in different locations and each ruler was different. Although each revolution were in different routes for independence race was a big issue. In Brazil, the elites,a group of people to be considered the best in thier society, with the leading of Minas Gerias rebelled against the imperial taxes, who were creole, and also rebelled against the peninsulares from Europe. In Mexico, under Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide's rule, Mexican army and political leader, viewed Mexicans or mixed Indian with less rights. In Gran Colombia, Santísima Trinidad Bolívar , a military and political ruler, was raised by slaves. Being raised by slaves changed his view on the whole race conflict that occurred in Gran Colombia and he supported people that aversed the country.
Unfortunately, race is still an issue people face in society today. Lately, there have been shootings of young Africain Americain males. For example, Treyvon Martin was a young Africian American boy who was unarmed and shot by George Zimmerman, a mixed race Hispanic man that was a neighborhood watch coordinator. Zimmerman was questioned but was never found guilty. Another similar event occurred in August were another young Africain Americain boy by the name of Mike Brown was fatally shot by Caucasian officer Darren Wilson. Akin to Martin, Brown was also unarmed but Wilson was trialed and later was found not guilty. Another recent shooting took place when a 12 year old Africain Americain boy, Ramirez rice, was shot by officer Timothy Loehman and later died. Information had not yet been realeased on weather officer Loehman is going to be charged or not. Ivins Rosier, an Africain Americain boy was sentenced 23 years in prison for shooting a police dog during a burglary. Many people may have different opinions which argue against the fact that the deaths and accusations of these young Africian Americains boys have nothing to do with thier race but I do. I believe that a person who is unarmed should not be shot to the point where they lose thier life. Police officers are trained to shoot a suspect where they make the person weak enough to arrest them. Yes, there are background stories to Treyvon Martin, Mike Brown, Ramirez rice and Ivins Rosier that make them seem like a bad person and even may consider them a criminal but the outcomes of thier situation should have been different. History will always effect the way society works. Race will always be a problem in the world. The only way to decrease racial injustice is for people to work together as one.
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