HIS106Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Malabar Coast, Chino Cloth, Sangley
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Miscegenation: the interbreeding of people considered to be of different racial types. Miscegenation was determined more so by conditions in the new world than by attitudes developed in the old world. Cultural: spaniards and portuguese were predisposed to mixing based on experiences in the. Hundreds of years of experience with ppl in africa before going to the new world. Jews, muslims, portuguese and spanish all mixing in the iberian. Demographic = the ratio of men to women in the americas determined the levels of miscegenation. Majority of immigrants were men, short supply of european women. Sexual conquest of native and african women rape a major part of colonial process across all empires. Free chinos in new spain: betw manilla and philippines and acapulco. Chinos = blanker term for asians in new spain. Spanish traded with japanese, chinese, and got slaves from india and south east asia (all referred to as chinos)
