ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Morisco, Encomienda, Repartimiento
17 Sep 2018
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The need to organize a hierarchy of social relations for the purpose of economic exploitation produces an organization of racialized differences. Races are social constructions based on identification categories. Based on discriminating features and certain phenotypic features. Race relations are types of social relations. There is greater disparity within a racial group than between them. Conventional racial groups differ in only 6% of their genes, 94% within racial group. Knowing the range in one trait does not predict the presence of others. Colonies, nations, and the dilemma of race mixing. Spanish: two societies: then legal hierarchies of casts. Us americans: legal separations, denial of national membership. Portuguese/brazilians: legal measures to encourage race mixing. 1525-1850, approximately 12. 5 million africans were shipped to the new. Mixed raced people were more common and defined in the middle space within latin america, a way out where they could play the ambiguities of their race.
