HIST 3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lower Middle Class, Peninsular Spanish, Mulatto

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 3150
• Professor: Professor Racine

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Oct 2 - race and ethnicity: within a generation there was a new racial hierarchy emerging, could buy certificates of whiteness, lineage etc, very race conscious society, race = biological, genetics; ethnicity = variants/different group within racial categories. Spain and have a secondary marriage/family in america. Considered suspicious [byproduct of the theory of tropical degeneration: spoke spanish, catholic, wore euro clothes, martin cortes [son of cortes and la malinche] Indians: demographic disaster" - est death rates of indigenous populations in 1600s could be as high as 90%