Why did you choose Brazil, Ecuador and/or India for your Global Citizen Year?
Why did you choose Brazil, Ecuador and/or India for your Global Citizen Year?
I am a Global Citizen Year fellow. I participated in the program year 2011 in Bahia, Brazil.
Brazil produced a list of anomalies for me. I found grandiose narratives of the United States and Brazil had offered me, a curious American, a lesson on contrast. The shared narrative in conquest and colonialism identified parallel similarities emerging on race and culture in both countries. Brazil and U.S. dwellers remain members of the New World. Indeed, we share a similar narrative -- a similar historical trauma -- that perhaps diminishes with the proximal distance. I had chosen Brazil for my Global Citizen Year because the layers of peculiarity in language and race specifically intrigued me. I wondered how language impacted my world view. Further how race in historical and colonial terms developed. Historically in a country with strong economic leverage, Brazil has informed my interest in comparatively studying the discourses of culture of United States in addition to the enigmatic Brazil. I wanted a personal investigation, on the political discourse and language; I wanted to see the fragments in history for myself.
NOTES:
I recommend E.E. Telles' work on race relations in Brazil for incoming fellows (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7846.html). It's quite remarkable.
Professors at UNC -
Dr. Burrill offers student perspectives in philosophical considerations of morality. In the field students must explore how service learning impacts the goals and objectives that guide their work and purpose. When students participate in a service learning event abroad the consequential inquiries on morality and ethics perform a crucial role in deep and useful interpretation. Dr. Burrill provides students like me engagement with service learning in the field. Her work aims, and successfully demonstrates, the philosophical ordeals one must overcome... etc etc. (Enthographic fieldwork and service learning)
Dr. Caldwell teaches a class on Brazil and race theory (Race in Brazil)
Dr. Escobar (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9564.html) and Dr. M Osterweil
I am a Global Citizen Year fellow. I participated in the program year 2011 in Bahia, Brazil.
Brazil produced a list of anomalies for me. I found grandiose narratives of the United States and Brazil had offered me, a curious American, a lesson on contrast. The shared narrative in conquest and colonialism identified parallel similarities emerging on race and culture in both countries. Brazil and U.S. dwellers remain members of the New World. Indeed, we share a similar narrative -- a similar historical trauma -- that perhaps diminishes with the proximal distance. I had chosen Brazil for my Global Citizen Year because the layers of peculiarity in language and race specifically intrigued me. I wondered how language impacted my world view. Further how race in historical and colonial terms developed. Historically in a country with strong economic leverage, Brazil has informed my interest in comparatively studying the discourses of culture of United States in addition to the enigmatic Brazil. I wanted a personal investigation, on the political discourse and language; I wanted to see the fragments in history for myself.
NOTES:
I recommend E.E. Telles' work on race relations in Brazil for incoming fellows (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7846.html). It's quite remarkable.
Professors at UNC -
Dr. Burrill offers student perspectives in philosophical considerations of morality. In the field students must explore how service learning impacts the goals and objectives that guide their work and purpose. When students participate in a service learning event abroad the consequential inquiries on morality and ethics perform a crucial role in deep and useful interpretation. Dr. Burrill provides students like me engagement with service learning in the field. Her work aims, and successfully demonstrates, the philosophical ordeals one must overcome... etc etc. (Enthographic fieldwork and service learning)
Dr. Caldwell teaches a class on Brazil and race theory (Race in Brazil)
Dr. Escobar (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9564.html) and Dr. M Osterweil
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