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As soon I arrived at Barcelona to study my master’s degree, I felt in love on her red sunsets - just as the famous Serrat’s song says- in her great architecture, traditions and food. Barcelona is finally  Gaudí's city, a whole piece of art, you can find a bench or a headlamp on any street signed by the artist.     When I receive the letter informed me about the acceptation of scholarship to study an stance in the Autonomous University of Barcelona, I never imagine how happy will been living in this beautiful city. The day I traveled, I remember I had mixed emotions, on one hand I felt scared and stressed out and in the other hand I was very euphoric and I felt very lucky. When I finally arrived to "El Prat" airport, it was Saturday night, the girl who was my landlady, kindly went for me to the airport. When she was driving to Barcelona's downtown, she surprised me when asked me what I used to eat for breakfast, I answered frankly: fruit such as watermelon or pine...

Frank Bell: Voices from slavery

The Frank Bell's biography is one of the 100 narratives that the book  Voices from slavery  compiles, and is a panoramic pictures about the injustice and undignified treatment received by Africa-Americans during and after de Civil War in United States, from the perspective of Frank Bell and others who were enslaved.  This is a very important document to recognize a part of history, to understand the origins of racism, the hate discourses and the ideology wave of supremacy of white race, so present nowadays, mostly in the United States and Europe, and which have recently germinated in some Latin American countries, such as Brazil or Bolivia.   Unfortunately, the belief prevails of superiority of white race, keeps based on the division of which people are best able to realized certain jobs, those jobs that are social less valued and requiere greater physical strength, or those jobs highly valued that requires intelligence ability for the politics, economics o...