Racism

Introduction

Despite the ban and negative legal consequences, the men used irregular sexual relations with Indian and African slave entrusted, while indigenous men and women, blacks and mestizos, had sex with each other. In often "mixes" were hidden and the children registered as "Creole". Many times for Indians and blacks, miscegenation was a way to access a social situation to which their children could never reach because of their racial classification. The caste system attempted to impose on the colonies of Spain an order stratified based on the ethnic fragmentation of the population. In practice, formed a society characterized by a separation of a white aristocracy (pensinulares and Creole), and the rest of the population mass was related by intermarriage, seeking to improve their social situation.

Discussion

While socio-racial prejudice of the aristocracy grew, the rest of the population multiplied ethnic relations and tended to ignore the rigid classifications of the system of castes, to settle generalizadamente in the breed of "mestizos"- where they were majority, no matter what had been the ethnicity of their ancestors (Collins). Thus there was a process of amalgamation of the colonial population, composed of relatively uniform human types customs, ideas and social status, to bring down the colonial caste system because of the same mixture.

The term race is used in Western culture since the time of first encounter with people of different external features. From then until the second half of the twentieth century provides a hierarchy of "races" based on observable differences: the color of skin, skull shape, hair, physical structure. From there begins the postulate of the existence of different races, thus classifying human groups by their biological characteristics in upper and lower (Rothenberg). Course, you have the white race from the start, was considered superior, more developed, better prepared, and armed for conquest. From ...