HIST 1400 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: History Of Latin America, Carmen Miranda, Ethnocentrism
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Was a portuguese-born brazilian samba singer, dancer, broadway actress, and film star who was popular from the 1930s to the 1950s. Pan-latinism languages and dialects derived are distinct from the anglo-saxon ones. Tremendous amount of diversity (culturally, religiously, socially) in each country. Struggle to find a meaningful identity for people to relate with. The problems with problems in latin american historiography. Began with a quest for what went wrong . Many questions on the disarray happening throughout the continent. Organized latin american history around negative questions. Blamed these problems on iberian cultural heritage. Have very little opportunity to progress; pessimism. But this is very ethnocentric, no professor will acknowledge this now. Important shifts: new approaches in 1960"s, 1970"s, and beyond. Single path to modernity for all nations. More contact with us and europe will bring progress to la, making it more. Criticize contact with us and europe: caused la"s exploitation. Focus on how hierarchies and differences are made.
