Michael Brescia: Head of Research and Curator of Ethnology, Arizona State Museum; Professor of history, University of Arizona
Monday, May 12, 2025, 2:30-4:30 pm (with break),
ASA Koffler Great Room and Zoom
In the fourth session, one colonial Mexican woman was pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable behavior for elite women in Mexico in the 1600’s. We explored both the gendered dynamics of power that sought to control Women’s movements and this woman’s limits to resist that power.
In this last session, radical ideas developed during the Enlightenment in Europe (individual liberty, democracy, the scientific method, collective action in the form of revolution) were spreading from Europe to Mexico, causing a few key Mexicans with friends and allies to champion the cause of Mexican independence, topple colonial social hierarchies, promote economic modernization, and remove Mexico from Spain’s colonial shadow. Dr. Brescia will show how, despite the ultimate success of Mexican independence in 1821, many features of Spanish colonialism endured in North America.
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