ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Scientific Racism, Social Stratification, Phenotype
26 Sep 2018
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The construction of race & social identity in latin america: problem of belonging and organization. 1. 1 post-conquest latin america and the organization of differences (a) colonial societies (b) national societies. An ordering of differences structures by underlying forces of political economy. 1. 2 capitalism, slavery, and the need to discriminate. > the need to organize a hierarchy of social relations for the purpose of economic exploitation produces an organization of radicalized differences. > economic exploitation and ideological domination: race and race relations. Derives from european justification of slavery, conquest, and colonialism. Which are rationalizations for exploitation labor regimes. Europeans & americans fabricated the cultural characteristics. Race relations are types of social relations. Convenient way to discriminate: colonies, nations, and the dilemma of race making. Different societies act differently to the racial ambiguities: spanish: two societies; then legal hierarchies of casts. Republic of los indios & republic of the spanish: u. s. americans: legal separations, denial of national membership.
