ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Concubinage, Social Darwinism, Manuel Gamio
18 Sep 2018
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Mestizos(mixed): (a) hispanized elite (minority) and (b) lower stratum african-indian-mexicans (majority) New model based more on cultural and economic rather than strictly racial indexes. Spanish: two societies, then legal hierarchies of castes. Portuguese/brazilians: legal measures to encourage race mixing. Us americans: legal separations, denial of national membership. Open concubinage with powerful white men/freedom in comparison. Nation building and the dilemma of race. Other countries turned to europe as a strong and prominent. The race problem of latin american nation building. Scientific racism says that mixed peoples can only be degenerate, so there was a struggle to solve how to give distinction between their emerging mixed race culture against europe. Two broad solutions developed by ruling elites: For african americans, race is a malleable structure, and the inferior races could be perfected as long as the methodology is guided correctly. Celebration of mixing appears inclusive but based process of whitening. Eventual erasure of blackness and indianness from.
